For full TV listings for the week, see thetimes.co.uk/tvplannerViewing guide, by Joe ClaySponsoredSubnormal: A British ScandalBBC1, 9pmIn 1960s and 1970s Britain an unofficial segregation policy targeted young black children with IQ tests, sending those that failed them to schools for the so-called educationally subnormal. The tests were biased against the children and condemned many to the scrapheap because the education offered at the schools they were sent to was non-existent. This powerful documentary tells the story of one of the biggest scandals in the history of British education, meeting the parents, teachers and activists, including the psychologist Waveney Bushell, who joined forces to expose the injustice and force the education system to change. The stigma is such that it was difficult

Source: The Times May 19, 2021 23:00 UTC