Mother sues school board after student suspended for using term ‘illegal alien
Leah McGhee, a mother from North Carolina, had no option but to take legal action against the school board for suspending her son over the term “illegal alien.” The suspension led to missed track meets, prompting the family to withdraw the student. The Liberty Justice Center filed a lawsuit after unsuccessful private attempts to resolve the issue. Leah McGhee, a North Carolina mother, had to sue the school board for suspending her son for using the term “illegal alien.” The suspension caused him to miss track meets, leading the family to pull him from the school. The Liberty Justice Center filed a lawsuit after failed private attempts to address the matter.
The mother of a North Carolina high school student stated she had “no other choice” but to sue her son’s school board, which suspended him for asking about the term “illegal alien.”
Leah McGhee, the mother of a Central Davidson High School student, said her son’s English teacher assigned various vocabulary words in April, with one of them being “alien.” Her son had asked for clarification on the word, questioning whether it was referencing “space aliens or illegal aliens without green cards.” This prompted the school to suspend McGhee’s son for three days. McGhee has argued that the suspension caused her son to miss several important track meets, with the family choosing to remove their son from the school.
The lawsuit, filed by the Liberty Justice Center, came about a month later.
“We have asked the school to handle this privately for weeks,” McGhee said on Fox News’s Fox & Friends. “I’ve emailed the school board for four weeks. I’ve had no response from the school board. And since … we had no resolution, we had no other choice but to file a lawsuit and take this public.”
McGhee also said that her son has received accusations of racism in the wake of his suspension but that the community they live in has shifted to their side after she spoke at a school board meeting on Monday night. She added that she has received messages of support “from all over the country.”
Dean McGee, an attorney for the Liberty Justice Center, argued that there is “no case for racism” in relation to the word “alien,” calling the suspension of McGhee’s son “outrageous.” He added that because “schools are government,” the government has branded McGhee’s son as a racist while denying him education for three days due to his suspension.
The lawsuit was filed against Davidson County Schools in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina on Tuesday.
BREAKING 🚨🚨🚨 We have filed a lawsuit against a North Carolina school board on behalf of Christian McGhee, a 16-year-old student whose question about the word “aliens” in class led to a harsh suspension & false accusations of racism by his own school.
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In the wake of McGhee’s son receiving the suspension, Republican state Sen. Steve Jarvis contacted the school district’s superintendent to inform him of the situation. He had also asked school officials to find the best solution for all involved in this dilemma.
The Washington Examiner has contacted Davidson County Schools for comment.
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