The McGhee family is suing Davidson County Schools in North Carolina after their 16-year-old son was suspended for using the term “illegal alien' during class.
A 16-year-old North Carolina student suspended for using the term 'illegal alien' in class is officially taking legal action against the school district for 'harsh punishment' and 'false accusations of racism.' According to the student's mother, Leah McGhee, in April, an English teacher at Central Davidson High School in Lexington gave a vocabulary assignment that involved the word 'alien.
Even though Christian asked a factual, non-threatening question—about a word the class was discussing—the school board branded him with false accusations of racism,' senior counsel at the Liberty Justice Center Buck Dougherty said in a statement. 'The school has not only violated his constitutional right to free speech, but also his right to due process and his right to access education, a guaranteed right under North Carolina law.
In a comment via the Liberty Justice Center, Leah McGhee said, 'I have raised our son to reject racism in all its forms, but it is the school, not Christian, that injected race into this incident. It appears that this administration would rather destroy its own reputation and the reputation of my son rather than admit they made a mistake.' Fox News Digital reached out to the Davidson County Board of Education for a comment.
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