“I was terrified by this point and I felt like nothing I did would make them like me,” the teenager, from Essex, said. “Racism in schools is such a big problem and not enough action is being taken to stop it from happening. “Schools really need to work harder so that children don’t suffer like I did.”In response to a callout, many children and teens had stories about racism in schools today. Some people don’t know that it’s a really racist word,” she said. Penny Rabiger, a co-founder and trustee of the BAMEed Network, representing black and minority ethnic school staff, said racism in schools wasn’t always overt but was structural too.

Source: The Guardian March 24, 2021 17:00 UTC