Students at Texas school disciplined for slave trade held over social media, activists say fremonttribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from fremonttribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
From staff reports
9 hrs ago
Aledo ISD said it has assigned disciplinary consequences after an incident about two weeks ago involving students at the Daniel Ninth Grade Center bullying and harassing other students based on their race.
The statement was made on the district s homepage Monday afternoon after social media posts referenced an apparent Snapchat screenshot which appears to refer to a group chat created called The (n-word) trading club/slave trade.
According to a report by the
Fort Worth Star-Telegram of one of the screenshots, one person typed they would spend $1 on a peer, and another person wrote in the chat they would pay $100 for someone else.
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News Texan environment agency approves request to burn more petcoke at Holcim US’s Midlothian cement plant despite complaints
Texan environment agency approves request to burn more petcoke at Holcim US’s Midlothian cement plant despite complaints Written by Global Cement staff
09 April 2021
US: The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has approved a request by Holcim US to use more petcoke at its integrated Midlothian plant. Local health and environmental campaigners had hoped to challenge the decision at a meeting in late March 2021, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram newspaper. The changes will enable the company, part of Switzerland-based LafargeHolcim, to more than double the plant’s carbon monoxide (CO) emissions to 7000t/yr. 35 local residents submitted requests for a hearing to query the application. Holcim US was identified from state data as the leading emitter of industrial pollutants in North T
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