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A pending lawsuit against El Camino Real Charter High School exposes a publicly funded private school in chaos, leaving students in danger.

“We had — had already taken — Joe [Wyatt], being one of them, was already broken down. He was already taken out.

So the next step was the easy one. Once Brad got these pictures, Billy was next in line.”

– From the deposition of Sukhbir Dhillon

The conversion of El Camino Real from a publicly controlled LAUSD high school to a publicly funded private school left behind a deeply divided community. One side argued that the school was already highly regarded and feared its stellar record would be compromised by becoming a charter school. The other was envious of its crosstown rival, Granada Hills High, which had already gone down the road of privatization, ridding itself of unpopular policies like bussing minority students onto its campus.

When being deposed as a witness in a lawsuit against El Camino, Sukhbir Dhillon, who teaches science at the charter school, described…