Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jan 31, 2018 16:17:29 GMT 12
REPORT: RACISM PREVALENT AT KIWI SCHOOLS
Kiwi kids say they are experiencing racism from other students and teachers at school, according to a survey.
Almost 1700 children were surveyed in the Education Matters to Me report released on Wednesday by the Office of the Children's Commissioner and the School Trustees Association.
It found many students felt they were "being treated unequally because of their culture", in what the report's authors described as a "significant and disturbing insight".
Others with learning difficulties or disabilities also felt marginalised.
"Some teachers are racist. They tell you that you are not going to achieve... this makes me feel angry because it hurts... then we do stupid things and we get blamed," a Pasifika-background student in an alternative education unit said.
"I'm real good at maths but my teacher just thinks I'm stupid so never gave me any time," a Maori student in alternative education said.
A secondary student with an African background also told of the need for "basic ethnic/race knowledge and tolerance, things like teaching kids that the word N***** is bad and racist".
Many of the comments were from in-person interviews with 144 mostly Maori students, "who were not well served" by the education system, the report said.....
www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/education/report-racism-prevalent-at-kiwi-schools/
Kiwi kids say they are experiencing racism from other students and teachers at school, according to a survey.
Almost 1700 children were surveyed in the Education Matters to Me report released on Wednesday by the Office of the Children's Commissioner and the School Trustees Association.
It found many students felt they were "being treated unequally because of their culture", in what the report's authors described as a "significant and disturbing insight".
Others with learning difficulties or disabilities also felt marginalised.
"Some teachers are racist. They tell you that you are not going to achieve... this makes me feel angry because it hurts... then we do stupid things and we get blamed," a Pasifika-background student in an alternative education unit said.
"I'm real good at maths but my teacher just thinks I'm stupid so never gave me any time," a Maori student in alternative education said.
A secondary student with an African background also told of the need for "basic ethnic/race knowledge and tolerance, things like teaching kids that the word N***** is bad and racist".
Many of the comments were from in-person interviews with 144 mostly Maori students, "who were not well served" by the education system, the report said.....
www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/education/report-racism-prevalent-at-kiwi-schools/
