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Girl Expelled for Setting Boy's Hair on Fire
OAK FOREST, Ill. (AP) -- A suburban Chicago school district has expelled an eighth-grade girl for allegedly setting a younger student's hair on fire during a bus ride earlier this month.

Forest Ridge School District 142 Superintendent Margaret Longo confirmed the board's action Monday.

Longo said the girl, who was a student at Hille Middle School in Oak Forest, reportedly sprayed a sixth grade boy with perfume on the bus March 3 and then pulled out a cigarette lighter and began sparking it. Some of the perfume caught on fire, singeing the boy's hair and jacket.

Longo said options for families of expelled students are to hire a tutor, home school or apply for acceptance to a private school.

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