"getting expelled" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone being removed from school, a workplace, or another type of organization due to a violation of the rules. For example, "John was getting expelled from the university after being caught cheating on a test."
Yolandi, whose age remains a secret, "was doing nothing" before Die Antwoord except, as Ninja adds with some pride, "causing trouble, going to rehab and getting expelled".
There he ponders carnality and philosophy with his randy sidekick, Beefy, and hunts for love, both momentary and lasting, in all the right and wrong places — a tragicomic search that he continues after getting expelled.
My own school career included stealing, shouting at teachers, smashing windows, submitting aggressively pornographic stories as GCSE coursework, getting caught having sex, nearly getting expelled, earning one E at A-level, and not heading off to Oxford University, as my parents had hoped, but to a job in a shop from which I was sacked for thieving.
It was all coming back in a Technicolor flood: hanging out in the cemetery atop the mausoleums, nearly getting expelled from grammar school for playing hooky, eating at the Colonette Diner late at night, shopping at Pants Place at the Hudson Mall for brightly colored pocketbooks and hoop earrings.
That question drives Mr. Steers's movie, and because Igby's rebellion is so angry and inchoate -- getting expelled from any school his furious mother can wangle him into, stealing her credit card for traveling -- it isn't clear until the end whether he's just ruining his life or fighting his way out of a culture he detests.
After getting expelled from high school for his gang affiliation, Williams became a teenage parent with no diploma.
