Territory officials learned more than two weeks ago that the students
cyberbullying their peers on the basis of race. (Photo: dw.com)
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Washington, Apr 14 (RHC) Students from a school in the US state of Texas today face disciplinary measures for staging an alleged slave auction in order to sell to fellow blacks.
Civil rights activists told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that ninth-grade students in the Aledo community, Parker County, organized the criticized initiative through the social network Snapchat.
That media outlet acquired a screenshot showing a group from that platform with names that included ‘slave trade’ and another with a racial slur.
The posts reflected that someone would pay a dollar for a partner, and another person would spend 100 times that amount in exchange for achieving the same goal.
According to the superintendent of the Aledo school, Susan Bohn, territory officials learned more than two weeks ago that students were cyber-bullying their peers on the basis of race.
Inappropriate, offensive and racially charged language and conduct are completely unacceptable and prohibited, Bohn said.
A cyberbullying incident led to conversations about how inappropriate and hurtful language can affect others, the school’s principal Carolyn Ansley wrote in a letter sent to the students’ parents, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram added. (Source: PL)
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