| Comment | Honestly as a white teacher I have seen lots. A lot of staff preconceptions of pupils based on race. BAME pupils put into bottom sets regardless of proven ability and denied chances to sit certai qualifications. Higher behaviour and dress code standards for BAME pupils. Lacklustre responses to racial incidents. A view that BAME parents are either really intensely focused on their kids education or shit. Blaming any difficulty a BAME teacher has on incompetency. Some of this is implicit. I can say without a shadow of a doubt I have allowed implicit bias into my work. But staff are obsessed with being "not racist". It's not possible for us to be "not racist", we can only be anti-racist. |
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