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Human rights complaint dismissed; differential punishment for cheating resulted from incompetence, not racial discrimination.
The complainants, two students of Asian descent, alleged they were discriminated against on the basis of race when they received a harsher penalty for cheating on an examination than a white student involved in the same incident.
The respondent raised preliminary objections regarding the Board's jurisdiction over a private educational institution and the naming of a trade name as the respondent.
The Board of Inquiry dismissed the preliminary objections, finding that the school provides a public service and that the misnomer was curable.
On the merits, the Board dismissed the complaints, concluding that the differential treatment resulted from the disciplinary committee's incompetence rather than racial discrimination.
