Some Black students at J.S. Waters School in Goldston were reportedly “sold” by classmates at a mock “slave auction.”

A North Carolina school district is offering a vague response to reports that some Black students at J.S. Waters School, a K-8 campus in Goldston, were “sold” by classmates at a mock “slave auction.”

one mother shared on Facebook that her “son experienced a slave auction by his classmates and when he opened up we were made aware that this type of stuff seems to be the norm so much that he didn’t think it was worth sharing.”

The mother, Ashley Palmer, wrote in the Facebook post on March 4 that her son shared that “His friend ‘went for $350’ and another student was the Slavemaster because he ‘knew how to handle them.’”

Her son attends J.S. Waters School, which is located about 50 miles southwest of Raleigh. The school is 68% white, 12% Black and 12% Hispanic, according to the News & Observer report, which pulled the demographic data.

Source – TheGrio