By Michael Gryboski | The Christian Post
Officials violated student’s First, Fourth and 14th Amendment rights.
A North Carolina school district has agreed to pay $95,000 in attorneys’ fees and damages after censoring an on-campus student tribute to conservative Christian activist Charlie Kirk.
Last year, a high school student and her parents sued the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education over a painted tribute to Kirk that was removed shortly after it was completed.
The nonprofit legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom, which represented the student, announced Monday that it had reached a settlement with school district officials over the lawsuit.
Per the settlement, the board of education agreed to pay $95,000 in assorted fees, clear the student of all wrongdoing and adopt a new student speech policy for the schools.
ADF Senior Counsel Travis Barham was quoted in the announcement as saying that it was “long past time for school officials to learn that they cannot promote student viewpoints they like while punishing students whose views they dislike.”
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