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When Walker Hoover ran for student body president with the Promise campaign as a sophomore in 2020, he knew that no sophomore student had ever been elected to the position. But, these odds did not stop him from trying to be the first. Although Hoover was not elected president last year, he has spent his time since the 2020 election considering whether or not he wanted to run again. Ultimately, he decided that he had some unfinished business he hoped to complete at UT and decided to run again wi...

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 p...

A Sam Houston High School junior alleges he’s endured bullying for years but says what happened to him earlier this month was the straw that broke the camel’s back.

  The Do Better Church Instagram account has saved the stories to its highlight reels. "Its not just those questions," one former student claimed on the Do Better Church Instagram account which has been sharing student and staff stories. "They also ask you if you have suffered any kind of sexual/physical/domestic abuse. I suffered abuse at the hands of family members for 18 years. But I was told quietly before the interview by a student who knew what was going on to say no to all question...

Texas Students Price Classmates Of Color In Slave Trade Snapchat Students at the predominantly white high school were disciplined for their participation in the group Snapchat message. A Texas school district announced this week that it had disciplined students who set prices on their classmates of color in a group Snapchat called “Slave Trade.” According to The New York Times, a group of students at the predominantly white Don R. Daniel Ninth Grade Campus of Aledo High School participated ...

USA TODAY A North Texas school district is condemning the acts of students who reportedly assigned prices to students of color in a "Slave Trade" auction Snapchat group message. The Aledo Independent School District released a statement on Monday denouncing the actions of students at the Daniel Ninth Grade Campus who were "bullying and harassing other students based on their race." The name of the group message changed multiple times, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported, using a racial slur...

Views: Visits 20 A group of high school students in Texas have been disciplined for setting up a “slave trade” messaging group that assigned prices to their black peers. Messages shared on the Snapchat app at a school in Aledo Texas said one student was worth a dollar and another 100 bucks, the New York Times reported. The school district conducted an inquiry and found “racial harassment and cyberbullying” had occurred. But some parents accused authorities of failing to respond...

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" studen...

Origin In March 2021, Texas school district administrators learned of a purported mock slave auction organized by high school students on Snapchat. The students attended the Don R. Daniel Ninth Grade Campus at Aledo High School. They were subsequently disciplined by the Aledo Independent School District. Aledo is a suburb of Fort Worth. Mock Bids and Racial Epithets The news was first reported by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on April 12. It published that the students who participated in the gr...

"My reaction is, What, again? Again? How many times we got to go through this?" Parker County NAACP president Eddie Burnett said.