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.
The district said the incident involved cyber bullying.
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Written by Paul Meara
A group of students at an Aledo, Texas school pretended to sell their Black classmates via a “slave auction” on social media. Now they’re being disciplined.
According to the
Star-Telegram, the Aledo Independent School District learned of an incident where the students at the Daniel Ninth Grade Campus cyber bullied and harassed students for being Black. District Superintendent Dr.
Susan Bohn claims an investigation has been launched that involved law enforcement.
Details surrounding the incident were not provided, except that they learned of it more than two weeks ago. Local activists told the newspaper that a group of students set up the slave auction that involved a Snapchat group with various names and prices they were willing to spend on a peer. A racial slur was also involved.
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 in the chat, which included emojis of a police officer aiming a gun at a Black farmer in the name. The chat’s name was later changed to include a racial slur followed by the words “Farm” and then “Auction.”
Texas students punished for racist incident
Texas students punished for racist incident
Washington, Apr 15 (Prensa Latina) The Aledo Independent School District, in Texas, announced it had disciplined students from its Daniel Ninth Grade Campus after internal investigations involving law enforcement found they had bullied and harassed other students based on their race.
The Snapchat groups were called Slave Trade, and other titles with racial slurs. In the chats, students from Aledo, Tex., pretended to buy and sell their Black peers, according to screenshots given to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Local activists provided the Star-Telegram with screenshots of chats showing a group using racial slurs with the words Farms and ¨Auction.¨ The group had also been named with emoji of a Black man, a gun and a White police officer.