After Student Gets Racist Snapchat Message, Woodlands School Suggests She Could Transfer

Their daughter had just been posting on Snapchat about her support for the NFL players kneeling during the National Anthem when she came downstairs to tell her dad, R.J. King, that she was afraid for her life.

Caught off guard, King asked her what had happened, and she showed him her cellphone. A message from a fellow classmate at The Woodlands High School was on the screen: "yall always gotta be starting shit [sic]. we should have hung all u n——— while we had the chance and trust me it would make the world better."

"I had to read it three or four times before I could actually believe what I was reading," King said.

King and his wife, Latoika, immediately alerted the administration at The Woodlands High School, and were assured that action would be taken. But just a couple of days later, they got an email from Principal Jill Houser about what exactly was being done: The principal was offering their daughter crisis counseling services, promising to take the male student out of her classes to ensure they wouldn't have contact at school — and if she was still feeling unsafe, another option was that she could transfer to another school in the district. (The email from Houser was provided to the Houston Press.)

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