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Posted on 05/21/2026 7:48:35 AM PDT by Puppage
A Las Vegas school district is being sued for allegedly violating a student’s First Amendment rights after he was expelled for placing pro-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) signs on campus.
Fox News reports that the lawsuit was filed in the US District Court for Nevada last week alleging that a minor, identified as N.C., was disciplined after placing six pro-law enforcement emblems around East Career and Technical Academy (CTA) in January.
The 2-by-2-inch emblems were posted a day after students were allowed to walk out of class to protest ICE and included messages such as “ICE Immigration Enforcement,” “Border Security Academy Deportation Force,” and “Titans ICE,” referencing East CTA’s mascot.
School administrators removed the emblems before the first bell and N.C. was questioned and suspended the following day before later receiving a limited expulsion.
The student told Assistant Principal Thomas Smith that he placed the emblems “to open a conversation amongst students at ECTA that have similar beliefs after seeing other students across CCSD express their Anti-ICE political beliefs.”
School administrators searched N.C.’s Chromebook and found searches around Martin Luther King Jr. Day that included “Dark Secrets of Martin Luther King,” “The Martin Luther King Assassination,” “James Earl Ray,” and “Tough ICE pictures.”
The complaint alleges Smith “determined these searches to be a racist threat” and likened the student’s pro-ICE emblems to “a burning cross” before suspending N.C. pending expulsion. That expulsion was later upheld before an Expulsion Hearing Panel and Expulsion Review Board.
The student’s father George Crossman filed the complaint and names the Clark County School District, East Career and Technical Academy Superintendent Jhone Ebert, East Career and Technical Academy Principal Natasha LeRutte, and Assistant Principal Thomas Smith as defendants. The lawsuit seeks damages in excess of $15,000, and that N.C.’s expulsion to be rescinded.
In a statement to Fox News Digital, the Clark County School District said: “CCSD recognizes and honors our students’ First Amendment rights to lawful advocacy and expression on causes important to them. However, the District does not comment on pending litigation.”
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It's the evil teachers and evil unions that are to blame.
Public schooling in 2026 has completely diverged from the original purpose, meaning and ethos from which they arose 200 years ago.
Its time for radical change.
Hope the student wins YUGE! The school near us in Reno saw anti-ICE brats attacking those that opposed the idea or even if they chose not to participate in protests. 😠
CURRENT PUBLIC SCHOOL IS EVIL
I LUCKED OUT-—WENT TO ONE ROOM SCHOOL & THEN TO A VERY GOOD 4 YEAR HIGH SCHOOL
Big time.
Yep.
The sooner the better.
What is shocking is that the student wasn’t killed or hospitalized by a gang of illegal invaders or antifa thugs.
Took some courage to do what he did.
Agree, I'm very disappointed in the pace of reform.
I know.
But the little bass turds get extra credit for walking out of class with their “teachers” blowing whistles, trombones and other things to go kiss illegal alien butts and throw bricks at ICE agents. I don’t think we’re in America anymore, Toto.
There are bad teachers. And yes, there are evils teachers. But they are in the minority.
As for teacher unions, they are woke and hopelessly corrupt. I could tell you a hundred stories about that.
But neither teachers nor their unions set policy. They have nothing to do with it. That power is in the hands of school administrators and the school board.
Teachers and their unions often deserve criticism. Oh, yes. But folks are aiming at the wrong target here. To really change things, you’ve got to change the school boards.
Here’s an example: In the big-city school district where I taught, the school board decided that no test score can be less than 50%. So if a student put his name on a test then went to sleep, he scored 50 points.
We teachers were livid about this.
No matter. It’s now policy.
Nearly impossible. In our area unions endorse pro union board members promising to increase teacher benefits. The school votes which garner 10% turnouts are held at the local school auditoriums and teacher turnout is close to 100%, all in favor of the pro union board members.
The administrators, they promote this crap, then defend it.
> Nearly impossible. <
You make a fair point. In my neck of the woods, union endorsements play a big part. And not it’s just the teacher unions. Other unions, too.
Sad to say that race plays a role, too.
That’s why I’m in favor of school choice. I don’t know about suburban or rural schools. But big city school districts are beyond saving.
This brave, patriotic student has hit a financial jackpot. Sue the school board mercilessly and the individuals personally who violated his rights. Make them pay.
I’m a proponent of what Hanushuk wrote in “Making Schools Work: https://hanushek.stanford.edu/publications/making-schools-work-improving-performance-and-controlling-costs
Merit pay for great teachers is part of it.
Hope the student wins YUGE! The school near us in Reno saw anti-ICE brats attacking those that opposed the idea or even if they chose not to participate in protests.
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I hope the student lives to collect. It takes giant cajones to post anything pro-ICE and probably skills like Rambo to survive the backlash.
I’m sure if a student posted F*** ICE (or Trump) around campus, that would be A-OK, and, in fact, he’d be looked on as a hero standing up to “fascism/Nazism/racism,” etc.
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