Texas students disciplined for ‘slave trade’ held over social media

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Students at North Texas school disciplined for ‘slave trade’ held over social media

A group of students at an Aledo school were disciplined based on a slave auction they set up on social media to pretend to sell their Black classmates, according to local activists.

The Aledo Independent School District learned of an incident where students at the Daniel Ninth Grade Campus cyberbullied and harassed other students based on their race, according to a statement from Superintendent Dr. Susan Bohn. The district started an investigation that involved law enforcement.

The district did not specify what the incident involved and said administrators learned about it more than two weeks ago. Local activists told the Star-Telegram that a group of students set up the slave auction. A screenshot provided to the Star-Telegram showed a Snapchat group with various names, including “Slave Trade” and another name that includes a racial slur. 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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Texas students created Snapchat group to ‘Slave Trade’ their Black classmates, activists said

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.

In one chat, students wrote that they would spend $1 on a classmate and “100 bucks” on another, according to the screenshots.

On Monday, the Aledo Independent School District announced it had disciplined students from its Daniel Ninth Grade Campus after an internal investigation involving law enforcement found they had bullied and harassed other students “based on their race.”

The district’s leadership condemned the incident, adding it would not tolerate such actions in the district west of Fort Worth with about 6,400 students.

“There is no room for racism or hatred in the Aledo ISD, period,” Aledo Independent School District Superintendent Susan Bohn said in a statement shared with The Washington Post. “Using inappropriate, offensive and racially charged language and conduct is completely unacceptable and is prohibited by district policy.”
 
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Let's hope it was a teachable moment....

In a letter sent to parents the week of April 5, Principal Carolyn Ansley wrote that “an incident of cyberbullying and harassment” led to conversations about how inappropriate and hurtful language can impact others.

The district spoke with all the students involved, as well as their parents, and “made it clear that statements and conduct that targets a student because of his or her race is not only prohibited but also has a profound impact on the victims,” Bohn said in the statement.
 
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This is what happens when you spend time denying history and attempting to revise it so that US slavery is not seen for the horror it is. Doing so makes it easy to make jokes about. Imagine if they had taken Jewish kids and joked about which concentration camp they should send them to.

Why Calling Slaves 'Workers' Is More Than An Editing Error
Coby Burren was reading his textbook, sitting in geography class at Pearland High School near Houston, when he noticed a troubling caption. The 15-year-old quickly took a picture with his phone and sent it to his mother.

Next to a map of the United States describing "patterns of immigration," it read that the Atlantic slave trade brought "millions of workers from Africa to the southern United States to work on agricultural plantations."

Of course we need to recognize the broader goal, denying the atrocities of US slavery allows you to argue that US segregation wasn't that bad, thus we can enact policies that target black people (never mentioning race explicitly, like with literacy tests to vote).
 
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Students at North Texas school disciplined for ‘slave trade’ held over social media

A group of students at an Aledo school were disciplined based on a slave auction they set up on social media to pretend to sell their Black classmates, according to local activists.

The Aledo Independent School District learned of an incident where students at the Daniel Ninth Grade Campus cyberbullied and harassed other students based on their race, according to a statement from Superintendent Dr. Susan Bohn. The district started an investigation that involved law enforcement.

The district did not specify what the incident involved and said administrators learned about it more than two weeks ago. Local activists told the Star-Telegram that a group of students set up the slave auction. A screenshot provided to the Star-Telegram showed a Snapchat group with various names, including “Slave Trade” and another name that includes a racial slur. 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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Wow. That is just ... messed up. (The word "messed" being a censor for a much stronger term here, of course.)
 
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