OUTRAGE: High School Student Suspended For Using Common Phrase

Are we living through the plot of George Orwell’s 1984?

A North Carolina high school student was recently suspended for using a common phrase that appears all over government documents.

Can you guess what he dared to say? ‘Illegal alien,’ that’s right—he was suspended for days for saying a completely harmless and common phrase. The New York Post outlined the incident:

His mother, Leah McGhee, said his teacher had given an assignment that used the word “alien,” and Christian asked: “Like space aliens or illegal aliens without green cards?”

Another student reportedly took offense and threatened to fight Christian, so the teacher took the matter to the assistant principal, according to the Carolina Journal.

My only question is did the other student who threatened violence against McGhee face any repercussions, or was McGhee the only one suspended?

Needless to say, reactions to the news on social media were overwhelmingly negative. Take a look:

I’m pretty sure the term “illegal alien” has been used as the official term for the U.S. Government for a very long time.

That didn’t stop Biden from trying to ban it in 2021.

Regardless, free speech means being able to use any term one wants.

Being suspended for it is absurd. pic.twitter.com/fSlM00juC6

— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) April 16, 2024

Christian McGhee is facing backlash for using the term "illegal alien" and for merely asking a question on an English assignment.

What is the state of free speech in our education system if a student is punished for using legally recognized language? pic.twitter.com/fqe6Fe3wFk

— Speech First (@Speech_First) April 17, 2024

INSANITY!

16 year-old Christian McGhee who is a student at Central Davidson High School in Lexington, North Carolina was suspended for 3 days after using the term ‘illegal alien’ during a vocabulary assignment in his English class. 

Christian’s words were deemed by… pic.twitter.com/ALqOLbLLSX

— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) April 16, 2024

Newsweek provided this statement from the student’s mother:

“Because of his question, our son was disciplined and given THREE days OUT of school suspension for ‘racism,'” Leah McGhee said in the email, per the Carolina Journal.

“He is devastated and concerned that the racism label on his school record will harm his future goal of receiving a track scholarship.

We are concerned that he will fall behind in his classes due to being absent for three consecutive days.”