For a number of black British people, school is the first arena where you realise your race will have a direct effect on your life experience. For some black pupils, negative experiences in school can also stem from staff members’ implicit bias. “Most black students were entered for the Foundation paper; teachers didn’t care about us,” she says, certain that race, rather than capability, was the deciding factor. “Black lives don’t just matter in the context of police brutality,” says teacher and Educators For Justice co-founder Davina McCabe. “Specific things include the lack of black people in senior ­leadership, disproportionate numbers of black students excluded, as well as the lack of black history and black authors taught.

Source: Daily Mirror June 23, 2020 21:36 UTC