And yet, normal in this nation means routine, incessant unmitigated killing - of each other and of ourselves. In a sense, T.S. Eliot was closer to correct than he might have imagined. April this year is as cruel as any other April.
“Normal” the past few weeks includes the following: In a Minneapolis suburb - barely 10 miles from where a Minneapolis police officer is on trial for the death of George Floyd - a young man trying to elude a traffic stop for a minor offense dies when a veteran police officer fires a bullet into his chest, which she has called an accident, claiming she meant to fire her Taser.
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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Two Aledo ISD mothers who said their sons were the target of racial bullying addressed the school board publicly Thursday night, expressing concern over their children s well-being and protection.
âWe â our families and our sons who are being put through this because of the stance that you all failed to take â feel that you all failed them,â one mother said during the special called meeting.
The mothers said they were notified about the incident on March 25 when screenshots of a Snapchat group surfaced.
âIt was a post from a Snapchat entitled â(N-word) Auction,ââ one of the mothers said. âAs I looked down on the screen at the various name changes of the group, it included âSlave Trade,â it included â(N-word) Farmâ and then I saw my sonâs name.â
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.