Texas high schoolers disciplined for 'slave-trading game' that auctioned off classmates based on race
Schools officials in Aledo said they discovered that students had engaged in cyberbullying and racial harassment.
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April 13, 2021, 10:02 PM EDT
By Sarah Kaufman
A Texas school district has disciplined students who it said engaged in an online "slave-trading game" and pretended to auction off classmates based on race.
A student from the Aledo Independent School District posted a screen capture of the game on Snapchat. It shows students using a chat labeled "Slave trade," along with a racial slur, to "trade" students of color.
A student posted "$1 for Chris" and "would be better if his hair wasn't so bad."
Aledo Independent School District parents say the Texas district has not done enough after an online game was discovered in which ninth-grade students were "slave-trading" students of color and labeling the group chat "Slave Trade," "N" Farm and "N" auction.KXAS
The school district, which is southwest of Fort Worth, condemned the game and the students' behavior.
The district said in a statement Monday that it discovered that students from the Daniel Ninth Grade Campus had been engaged in racial harassment and cyberbullying more than two weeks ago "and launched an immediate and thorough investigation that involved law enforcement."
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