NC Supreme Court Revives Case After Parents Challenged Woke Insanity, Kids Expelled: AM Update 9/7

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Megyn Kelly (0:32)

Good morning everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. Happy Labor Day. It's Monday, September 7th, 2026 And this is your AM Update.

Doug Turpin (0:40)

They wanted to in secret turn it into basically a woken indoctrination center that went and repudiated everything that the school had ever stood for.

Megyn Kelly (0:52)

Two children abruptly expelled from their school after their parents questioned its radical new direction. The family now getting another chance to hold the school accountable. Coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.

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A North Carolina family gets another chance to seek justice nearly five years after a prestigious private school expelled their two children, allegedly retaliating after the parents challenged its sudden embrace of left-wing ideology. Doug and Nicole Turpin accusing Charlotte Latin School of abandoning its traditional apolitical approach to education amid the George Floyd and Black Lives Matter insanity of 2020, then punishing their innocent children when they, as parents, spoke up. The family's lawsuit initially running into a series of legal setbacks, a trial court dismissing eight of the Turpin's nine claims, prompting the family to voluntarily drop the remaining claim without prejudice and pursue an appeal. The North Carolina Court of Appeals later upholding those dismissals. The North Carolina Supreme Court last month reviving parts of the couple's lawsuit, finding they adequately pleaded several claims previously dismissed by lower courts. The 5-2 ruling not deciding whether the Turpin's allegations are true, but allowing their legal fight to go forward. The family's son and daughter attending Charlotte Latin from the time they were very young until their abrupt expulsion at ages 11 and 13

Charlotte Latin undergoing a leadership change in July 2019 when Chuck Baldecky took over as headmaster. Doug Turpin telling AM Update that parents began encountering deeply troubling changes the following school year, including material they never imagined their children would see at Charlotte Latin.

Doug Turpin (3:40)

When the new headmaster came in, Chuck Baldecky, they decided they wanted to go into a fundamentally different direction without telling anybody. They wanted to in secret turn it into basically a woken indoctrination center that went and repudiated everything that the school had ever stood for.

In our mind, it was like education fraud. So when we started seeing things like a picture of Jesus with his throat cut and black blood pulling down his shirt with the words God is dead, hung up his artwork in the hallway for the young kids to see, or a picture of a police officer with a pig, basically representing them in a police officer's uniform with all cops or passports, or there was a gay sex manual with explicit images all the way through it of how to have gay sex, but in the young children's section of the library. We were all just shocked and horrified.

Megyn Kelly (4:45)

According to the family's complaint, Charlotte Latin declaring itself, quote, an anti-racist academic institution in June 2020, and pledging to make diversity, equity and inclusion policies, which in fact divide and assign value to children according to a racial hierarchy, foundational to the school's broader long-term direction. Nicole Turpin describing how the school's new direction made a place their family once loved feel increasingly unrecognizable.

Nicole Turpin (5:14)

Charlotte Latin was the very first school that we ever went to. My whole life was going from our house to Charlotte Latin. Volunteering, talking to the teachers, was just a very nurturing environment that our children grew up in. So, and this is when the old headmaster was there, but when the new headmaster came, everything changed.