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Aledo ISD will now strongly recommend â but not require â face coverings after a 6-1 vote at Thursdayâs special board of trustees meeting.
âI think when the governor made his announcement to lift masks, this board and district operated in the same manner that we were not just going to jump because somebody said jump â we understood over the last year things had changed over and over and over,â AISD Board Secretary Forrest Collins said.
After monitoring other districts and their own numbers as well as getting teachers vaccinated, board members said they felt it was time to lift the mask requirement for AISD.
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.
Aledo ninth-graders’ ‘slave auction’ of Black classmates should be a wake-up call to all white parents
Aledo ninth-graders’ ‘slave auction’ of Black classmates should be a wake-up call to all white parents
If we aren’t using recent incidents involving Dallas-Fort Worth area students to talk to our own kids about racism, we are part of the problem
Mothers Tamara Lawrence, left, and Mioshi Johnson spoke to the media Thursday night after addressing the Aledo ISD school board about a racist Snapchat group that targeted their ninth-grade sons.(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer)
Aledo ISD has plenty of academic achievement data to back up its “Growing Greatness” slogan. But this district, just west of Fort Worth, and the white families who have flocked there should look hard at what else is growing.
Parents of two Black students targeted in a “Slave Trade” on social media demand a change in the Aledo school district’s culture. Mioshi Johnson and Tamara.