Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20160626203649/@comment-26397825-20160704045202

Well, expulsion would have to be something very serious like purposefully going against what being a Huntsmen is all about; protecting the kingdoms. Once the kids have graduated there's nothing they can do, but if they're still in school and do something like join up with Cinder and work to bring down the Kingdoms or start destroying villages or what have you, then they'd be expelled.

As for dropping out; Beacon is comparable to a college. College students drop out all the time; whether it's because of medical or family reasons, or they simply decide they can't do it anymore, or they decide they want to do something else with their life. They'd be treated just the same as a student dropping out of college in our world would be; the teachers would possibly talk to them and try to convince them not to go, but would ultimately wave goodbye and move on.

I would imagine that exclusion is an option if you consistently fail to live up to their standards; like say if Jaune hadn't gotten Pyrrha to train him, his fighting ability may not have improved enough to bring his GPA up enough to stay in school. But the character would have to be pretty terrible across the board to be excluded like that; I'm talking failing three quarters of their classes, not just one or two.

As for how teams are treated in the case of one of the members leaving; well. Depending on the year, they may just leave them as a three man team, or they may shuffle them around the various academies and slot them into other teams that are down a member. They may even have a 'reserves' section, where students who don't have partners after Initiation because of odd numbers are placed, and in the case of a team losing a member those students are pulled out of the reserves and the team is renamed. I doubt the reserve students would become the team leader, as that would just breed resentment between them and the pre-existing team, but it would be an option.