Texas High Schoolers Set Prices for Classmates in âSlave Tradeâ Chat 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.