68 Case No. 12/00509 Can a school expel students because of their behaviour during their leisure time and outside the school’s grounds? The Ombudsman investigated this issue when a higher preparatory course student complained because he had been expelled from both his day and boarding school. The student had smoked cannabis during a night out on the town on a weekend, and this was against the school’s house rules. However, there was no evidence that the student had been visibly affected on his return to the school or that his behaviour had in any other way inconvenienced the school. For this reason, among others, the school had no authority to expel the student, said the Ombudsman. The Ombudsman’s statement, which also took a position on various other questions of fundamental importance, can be read in full (in Danish) on www.ombudsmanden.dk, Case No. 2013-24. The Ombudsman has published 28 selected statements and reports which are to be regarded as part of the 2013 Annual Report of the Parliamentary Ombudsman because he finds them to be of significant and fundamental importance. Before a statement or report is made public, the Ombudsman decides which personal information is to be removed from the text.