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School sued for suspending student who used term ‘illegal alien’
NewsNation ^ | 5/8/24 | Damita Menezes

Posted on 05/08/2024 12:28:27 PM PDT by MAGA2017

(NewsNation) — The mother of a North Carolina high school student who was suspended for asking about the term “illegal alien” in class says the punishment could hinder his college prospects if it remains on his record.

Leah McGhee said her 16-year-old son Christian, a 10th grader at Central Davidson High School, was just asking a question when he used the term, which the school allegedly equated “to a vicious racial slur.”

“Christian is raised in a household that instills the beliefs in the following of Jesus Christ. For him, that hurts even more, because he knows in his heart, he has zero racism in his heart,” McGhee said Tuesday on NewsNation’s “On Balance.”

Antisemitism ‘is happening in our high schools’: Rep. Aaron Bean The family represented by the Liberty Justice Center filed a lawsuit against the school district, alleging violations of Christian’s free speech, education and due process rights.

McGhee said she is concerned the three-day suspension could create issues when Christian applies to colleges next year.

“This label that was so unfairly placed on his record is going to hinder him,” she told NewsNation.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsnationnow.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: illegalalien; student; suspended
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Well, we’ve come a long way.
wet-back
illegal-alien
newcomer
citizen


21 posted on 05/08/2024 1:10:25 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (Bye done!)
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To: Tax-chick

Not all foreigners at once.

Ellis Island ring a bell?


22 posted on 05/08/2024 1:13:07 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (Bye done!)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

What does Ellis Island have to do with the fact that illegal aliens in the United States come from many different countries with different languages, including English?


23 posted on 05/08/2024 1:16:02 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
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To: Tax-chick

It’s complicated. Sorry you don’t get it.


24 posted on 05/08/2024 1:19:20 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (Bye done!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Do they teach freedom of speech as one of the American values protected as in the First Amendment?

Or is it in the school library under “historical fiction.”?


25 posted on 05/08/2024 1:19:38 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: Carl Vehse

“Let’s hope they win the lawsuit and Davidson County and its officials have to pay out $millions!!!”

My first thought as well along with I hope his award is substantial enough to cover his college and more. The problem however is that the money comes from the taxpayers when it rightfully should come from the school or district administrative personnel, teacher(s) or anyone involved in establishing the policy.


26 posted on 05/08/2024 1:47:40 PM PDT by ByteMercenary (Cho Bi Dung and KamalHo are not my leaders.)
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To: algore

“Newcomers”


27 posted on 05/08/2024 2:22:25 PM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

Whatever.


28 posted on 05/08/2024 2:38:47 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
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To: MAGA2017

Everyone involved in giving him a 3 day suspension should be looking for a job.


29 posted on 05/08/2024 2:44:42 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: MAGA2017
Geeze...if he had said “wetback” they'd be charging him with insurrection.
30 posted on 05/08/2024 3:45:11 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

WETBACK always has and always will work for me.


31 posted on 05/08/2024 3:46:30 PM PDT by 5th MEB (1)
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To: MAGA2017

I hope they break the school financially!


32 posted on 05/08/2024 3:50:39 PM PDT by bantam
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To: MAGA2017

If you don’t use that term, they’ll just disappear.


33 posted on 05/08/2024 4:29:50 PM PDT by SkyDancer (~A Bizjet Is Nothing But An Executive Mailing Tube ~)
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To: Tax-chick

Seriously, you are familiar with Ellis Island where immigrants came to be vetted, vaccinated if needed, and more.

Whew that was tough. ; -))


34 posted on 05/08/2024 4:44:43 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (Bye done!)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

Right. What does that have to do with the languages spoken by today’s illegal aliens, many of whom overstayed student or tourist visas? The post to which I responded identified the language of illegal aliens as “Mexican,” but even if the person had said “Spanish,” it would have been a poor description of the situation.


35 posted on 05/08/2024 5:02:05 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
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To: Tax-chick

I guess I misunderstood the original post.


36 posted on 05/08/2024 6:26:39 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (Bye done!)
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To: MAGA2017

“Illegal Alien” is not a race.


37 posted on 05/08/2024 8:10:04 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Tax-chick

“Illegal aliens come from a lot of countries, including English-speaking ones.”

Many “overstayed their visas”.

Why haven’t they been fined, then returned?

Because Deep State bureaucrats are too busy knifing the USA elsewhere?


38 posted on 05/09/2024 2:24:32 AM PDT by Does so ( 🇺🇦....We are in the later stages of a Communist takeover...)
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To: Does so

I think it’s a combination of ideology - “The United States is bad and doesn’t deserve to have borders and enforce them.” - and pure incompetence.


39 posted on 05/09/2024 2:30:45 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
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To: lepton

I keep saying that, too. “Mexican” is not a race, either.


40 posted on 05/09/2024 2:32:05 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
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