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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. Published 13 hours ago 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. ....
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 appropriately. Messages posted on the group’s Snapchat, which was reportedly labelled with terms such as ‘farm’ and ‘auction’, said the price set for one student “would be better if his hair wasn’t so bad”, according to the New York Times, which said it had seen screenshots of exchanges. ....