North Carolina high school student suspended over using the term ‘illegal alien’: Report Fox News
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Usingtheterm“illegalalien”isreportedlyaninfractionworthyofsuspensioninaNorthCarolinahighschool.
InanemailtotheCarolinaJournal,LeahMcGheedescribedanincidentinCentralDavidsonHighSchoolinLexingtonwhereher16-year-oldsonwassuspendedforthreedayslastweekovertheterm.
AccordingtoMcGhee,anEnglishteacherwasgivinganassignmentthatinvolvedusingvocabularywordssuchastheword“alien.”Inresponse,hersonaskediftheteachermeant“likespacealiensorillegalalienswithoutgreencards?”
AnotherstudentallegedlytookoffensetothetermandthreatenedtofightMcGhee’sson,forcingtheteachertocontacttheassistantprincipal.ThestafflaterdeemedthetermtobeoffensivetoHispanicstudentsandpunishedhim.
TheCarolinaJournalreportedonLeahMcGhee’sson’ssuspensiononTuesday.(JeffryW.Myers
