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Eddie Burnett, president of the Parker County NAACP, told the
Star-Telegram he learned about the situation Sunday and plans to bring it up at a school board meeting set for April 19.
The school district said the students were disciplined for cyberbullying and their actions but did not specify what the discipline was.
“There is no room for racism or hatred in the Aledo ISD, period,” Bohn said in the statement. “Using inappropriate, offensive and racially charged language and conduct is completely unacceptable and is prohibited by district policy.”
The cyberbullying incident comes as former police officer Derek Chauvin sits on trial for the death of George Floyd. Less than 15 miles away from where that trial is being held, Daunte Wright was shot and killed last weekend by an officer who allegedly meant to use her taser and instead pulled out her gun and shot Wright.
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A school district in Aledo, Texas, said it had meted out âdisciplinary consequencesâ after ninth graders assigned dollar values to students of color in private Snapchat messages.
Some parents were critical of the schoolâs principal for not explicitly calling the contents of the group message racist.Credit.NBC
April 14, 2021
A North Texas school district said this week that it had disciplined a group of students at a predominantly white school who had assigned prices to students of color in a Snapchat group message called âSlave Trade.â
Messages sent by students at the high school in Aledo, Texas, about 20 miles west of Fort Worth, said one student was worth â100 bucksâ while another was worth a dollar â a price that âwould be better if his hair wasnât so bad,â according to a photo of the group chat seen by The New York Times.
New-yorkUnited-statesFort-worthTexasParker-countyCarolyn-ansleySusank-bohnEddie-burnettNew-york-timesNorth-texasDaniel-ninth-grade-campusAledo-independent-school-districtThe district said the incident involved cyber bullying.
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Written by Paul Meara
A group of students at an Aledo, Texas school pretended to sell their Black classmates via a “slave auction” on social media. Now they’re being disciplined.
According to the
Star-Telegram, the Aledo Independent School District learned of an incident where the students at the Daniel Ninth Grade Campus cyber bullied and harassed students for being Black. District Superintendent Dr.
Susan Bohn claims an investigation has been launched that involved law enforcement.
Details surrounding the incident were not provided, except that they learned of it more than two weeks ago. Local activists told the newspaper that a group of students set up the slave auction that involved a Snapchat group with various names and prices they were willing to spend on a peer. A racial slur was also involved.
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Texas students disciplined over slave trade game © Reuters Authorities described the group s messages on Snapchat as cyberbullying and harassment
A group of high school students in Texas have been disciplined for setting up a Slave Trade messaging group that assigned prices to their black peers.
Messages shared on the Snapchat app at a school in Aledo said one student was worth a dollar and another 100 bucks , the New York Times reported.
The school district conducted an inquiry and found racial harassment and cyber bullying had occurred.
But some parents accused authorities of failing to respond appropriately.
Messages posted on the group s Snapchat, which was reportedly labelled with terms such as farm and auction , said the price set for one student would be better if his hair wasn t so bad , according to the New York Times, which said it had seen screenshots of exchanges.
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