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(NewsNation) — The parent of a North Carolina precocious schoolhouse pupil who was suspended for asking astir the word “illegal alien” successful people says the punishment could hinder his assemblage prospects if it remains connected his record.
Leah McGhee said her 16-year-old lad Christian, a 10th grader astatine Central Davidson High School, was conscionable asking a question erstwhile helium utilized the term, which the schoolhouse allegedly equated “to a vicious radical slur.”
“Christian is raised successful a household that instills the beliefs successful the pursuing of Jesus Christ. For him, that hurts adjacent more, due to the fact that helium knows successful his heart, helium has zero racism successful his heart,” McGhee said Tuesday connected NewsNation’s “On Balance.”
The household represented by the Liberty Justice Center filed a lawsuit against the schoolhouse district, alleging violations of Christian’s escaped speech, acquisition and owed process rights.
McGhee said she is acrophobic the three-day suspension could make issues erstwhile Christian applies to colleges adjacent year.
“This statement that was truthful unfairly placed connected his grounds is going to hinder him,” she told NewsNation.
Since his instrumentality to schoolhouse aft the suspension, McGhee said her lad has faced ostracization, bullying and threats.
Concerned for his safety, his parents unenrolled him and helium is present completing the semester done a homeschooling program.
School officials refused to clasp a “restorative justice” gathering to sermon the incident, arsenic McGhee had requested, according to the family’s attorney, Dean McGee.
“If they are punishing him successful the anticipation of looking progressive, they’ve failed miserably,” McGee said.
