Aledo High School senior Piper Minick said she was disgusted and physically ill by what she described as blatant acts of racism in the school district and by flyers depicting a slave sale discovered Monday morning.
âThe motto in Aledo is Growing Greatness and I donât know about yâall but I have been taught my whole life by my mom, by my teachers, that actions speak louder than words. It is now time that our students of color can come to school and not be devalued by their peers,â Minick said. âI say this with the utmost respect, no amount of state championship titles are now going to erase the racism here in Aledo and that we are now known for.â
Joseph Settles said what the students did was an adult crime, and they should not be protected. This is a learned freakin behavior. I m so appalled hearing all this stuff, he said. Stop covering racism up.
Hoyt Harris spoke at the conclusion of the public comments portion, saying, When our community gets behind something, we tend to win and that s what we ve got to do. We ve got to do this as a community.
The board took a recess before resuming their regular agenda.
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Update: (7:50 p.m.) As a former student, I am embarrassed to say I graduated from here, former student Sophia Bush said.
High schoolers disciplined for slave-trading game that auctioned off classmates based on race TODAY 3 hrs ago Sarah Kaufman
A Texas school district has disciplined students who it said engaged in an online slave-trading game and pretended to auction off classmates based on race.
A student from the Aledo Independent School District posted a screen capture of the game on Snapchat. It shows students using a chat labeled Slave trade, along with a racial slur, to trade students of color.
A student posted $1 for Chris and would be better if his hair wasn t so bad.
The school district, which is southwest of Fort Worth, condemned the game and the students behavior.
Students at the Daniel Ninth Grade Campus in Aledo were communicating on Snapchat, and playing a "game" putting prices on children of color at the school and.
By Ryan Shepard
Apr 13, 2021
Parents are firing back after the Aledo Independent School District labeled an online slave trading gamed led by students as cyberbullying and not racism. The controversy surrounding the north Texas school district revolves around an online game created by students where students trade students of color for digital currency. For example, one student could be worth $100 because other students like them, but another student could be worth $1 if other students don t like their hairstyle. Participating students called the online activity Slave Trade or N Farm, Understandably, parents, teachers and students of color were outraged. It makes me sick from the standpoint, Who do they think they are? What gives them the right to think they can do that to someone else?, former Aledo Independent School District parent