A 16-year-old student was suspended from Central Davidson High School in Lexington, North Carolina, last year for uttering the term “illegal alien” during a vocabulary lesson in English class. In addition to his temporary removal, Christian McGhee was effectively characterized as a racist for making what the school’s vice principal Eric Anderson claimed was a “racially insensitive remark that caused a class disturbance.”
The class environment that McGhee returned to was apparently so hostile — rife with bullying and threats — that his parents had to take him out of school. According to the Liberty Justice Center, the firm that sued the Davidson County Board of Education on McGhee’s behalf alleging violations of his First and 14th Amendment rights, the minor ended up completing
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