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