A new lawsuit claims the girl who voices “Dora the Explorer” got caught vaping at school and is the reason one girl was expelled.
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Fatima Ptacek, 15, was suspended for three days from a New York City private school after she was caught smoking a caramel-flavored water vaporizer in the bathroom. The girl she convinced to smoke with her was suspended indefinitely.
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“At first, we didn’t know how to turn it on, but then we figured it out,” Ptacek said. “We both sucked in from the vaporizer, but I was a little scared, so I didn’t inhale into my lungs but kept it in my mouth.”
The pen did not contain tobacco or drugs.
Now, the other girl’s parents are suing Avenues: The World School because they claim their 14-year-old daughter — who was not named in the lawsuit — was wrongfully suspended.
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Nadia Leonelli and Fredrik Sundwall claim their daughter “was approached by her friend, F.P., who is a year older in 10th grade at Avenues, to go into the bathroom and try smoking flavored water vapor in a ‘vape’ pen that F.P. had borrowed from a fellow 10th grade classmate.”
They believe suspending their daughter was an “inappropriate decision” and want a refund for their $40,000 tuition.
