New audio and screenshots of administrators and school board members responsible for suspending 16-year-old student Christian McGee Use of the term “illegal alien” Released on Monday.
Liberty Justice Center Preliminary injunction filed On Tuesday, a request was made to have the three-day suspension removed from McGee’s record as his trial continues. McGee and his family are currently suing the Davidson County School Board because they consider it a harsh punishment for an innocent question.
The injunction included new evidence, including an audio recording of an administrator explaining the reasoning behind the three-day suspension, saying it was “unfair” to students who were given the suspension for “saying the N-word.”
Christian McGee, 16, was suspended in April for using the word illegal alien in class. (Screengrab of Fox & Friends)
“He swore to me he wasn’t trying to be intentionally rude by asking that, so I talked to him about asking the question by saying ‘people who need green cards’ instead of ‘illegal aliens.’ There are some respectful ways to ask this question and there are some very disrespectful ways,” The administrator said,
He added, “I agree that three days off from school is harsh, but that’s a limit that we decided in August, and even though it pains me to give it to him because I don’t want to go there … we decided that in August. And if I don’t give it to him, I’d be doing an injustice to the 15 other kids who have already served this punishment for saying the N-word or any racial slur that disrupts class.”
In April, Christian McGee was suspended for three days after he asked a teacher if the word “aliens” referred to “space aliens or illegal aliens who need green cards.” After a student allegedly threatened to “kick him out” for using the word, Christian was sent to the assistant principal, who concluded it was a “racially motivated comment that disrupts class.”
In the audio, the administrator said the other student later laughed off the comment, but the punishment should still apply.
A school administrator emphasized that the term “illegal alien” was serious, though students did not object to the term. (iStock)
The administrator said, “He thought it was funny or at least he laughed at it and said, ‘Oh, it’s no big deal,’ and in the hallway, when I was talking to the two boys and Miss Hill, he said ‘Those are just words. It’s no big deal, is it?’ And I said, ‘No, sir, it’s a big deal considering the way those words were said and the meaning they carry.’”
prohibition order It also included screenshots of messages between school board member Ashley Carroll and community leaders in which they criticized Christian and his mother, Leah, for reversing the suspension.
The message Carroll sent to a Jewish community leader read, “Would you beat up a kid who made anti-Semitic comments?”
“It’s a three-day suspension. It’s not the end of the world,” he said.
Carole also shared an old arrest photo of Leah.
Carroll wrote to a former law enforcement official, “If you want to know what kind of person you are dealing with, this is mother’s record. Didn’t you work hard to get drug dealers off the streets?”
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School board members attempt to discredit Christian McGee’s mother, Leah, for questioning the suspension. (Mark Kerrison/In Pictures via Getty Images/Brian A. Jackson/South Florida Sun Sentinel)
Fox News Digital The Davidson County School Board was contacted for comment but has not yet received a response.
“The Davidson County School Board not only invented a racial slur but also violated a student’s rights to free speech and due process by punishing him for that fictional incident,” Liberty Justice Center senior attorney Buck Daugherty said in a press release.
He added, “We have an administration that refuses to admit its mistake, and a child caught in the crossfire. We are proud to stand with Christian and his family, and we urge the Court to order this wrongful suspension to be removed from Christian’s record.”
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Education freedom advocate Dean McGee, who Representing the McGee family“We believe the preliminary injunction will be granted, which will allow our client’s record to be clean as the case moves forward,” told Fox News Digital.
