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Exclusive: Non-Hawaiian Kicked Out Of Kamehameha

Student Gained Admission To Native Hawaiian School After Lawsuit

POSTED: 9:04 pm HST October 12, 2007

The non-Hawaiian boy who went to federal court to gain admissions to Kamehameha Schools has been kicked out, KITV has learned.

However, Brayden Mohica-Cummings is being given a chance to return to the school's Kapalama campus, sources said.

The issue of the student's entry into the school enraged people in the Native Hawaiian community four years ago.

Mohica-Cummings was a seventh-grader when Kamehameha Schools agreed to allow him admission in 2003, settling his federal lawsuit.

Now a junior, he was a boarding student at the Kapalama Campus until this past week, when sources said he was suspended for the rest of the academic year for violating student rules. The exact infraction is not clear.

However, sources said Kamehameha will allow him back next fall for his senior year, if he behaves himself and he gets good grades for the remainder of this school year at a different school.

A Kamehameha spokesman refused to comment on the boy's suspension.

"If that were true, that would involve disciplinary action, which is a private matter between the school and the student," Kamehameha Schools' spokesman Kekoa Paulsen said.

Hawaiian activists heckled Mohica-Cummings' mother and his attorneys after a federal court hearing in 2003.

One of his attorneys said he has not spoken to the boy or his mother in years and does not know anything about his current troubles.

KITV has not been able to find out where the boy has enrolled in school now that he is gone from Kamehameha. As of Friday, he was not registered in the state's public school system.

His mother, who lives on Kauai, did not return KITV's phone messages. KITV could not reach his father, who was last reported to live on the Big Island.
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