An American teen suspended for using the term ‘illegal alien‘ in class has finally received justice after his school was forced to apologize and pay out a massive $20,000 settlement.
The year-long free speech saga came to an end after a North Carolina district school board agreed to wipe the suspension off the record of Christian McGhee, who was a 16-year-old when his case was first thrust into the national spotlight by President Donald Trump.
The then-sophomore at Central Davidson High School in Lexington, a suburb north of Charlotte, asked his English teacher whether she was referring to ‘space aliens or illegal aliens who need green cards’ during a vocabulary lesson on April 9, 2024.