British Schools are Racist

Apparently Rap, Hip Hop, Gang Culture and a culture of father less family's due to the fathers fathering multiple children by multiple mothers yet staying with none has nothing to do with the poor performance in school and society of Black Caribbean youth. (you will notice this does NOT seem to apply to Caribbeans of Asian origin!)

Apparently its all the fault of our Racist school system, this can be proven by the FACT that when you put Black Caribbean children in a school that is designed to cater exclusively to their "special requirements in classes with a ratio of just 5 to 1 teacher they apparently excel.

Quire frankly if you put the average half wit in the same environment they would excel, but well done on the researchers comming up with yet another excuse for the poor down trodden blacks to brandish when accused of under achieving!

Black Caribbean pupils are being held back by institutional racism in schools, according to a new study.

Children at Tabernacle School in west London

A report by Warwick University claims that teachers are making assumptions about behavioural problems and therefore compromising black pupils' education.

The Tabernacle School in West London has 45 pupils, the majority of whom are black. The school prides itself on being the kind of environment in which black pupils can excel.

Generally, parents choose to send their children here because they lack confidence in state school teaching standards. The report's author, Dr Steve Strand, claims they should also fear racism and discrimination.

The school has a warm yet disciplined atmosphere. A class consisting of a mere five pupils say poor performance can't solely be blamed on teachers.

Fifteen-year-old Cameron tells me: "There are some kids that just don't want to learn. It's their peer group that's stopping them. They just go around causing mayhem."

Tammy, 14, agrees: "You can't say that all teachers are racist. Some may be but not across the board. It's down to the individual and whether they really want to learn."

There were stereotypes that I have to battle against. There was an assumption that the 'big, black boys' would cause trouble.

Matthew Charlery-Smith on the stereotyping of black school children.

Matthew Charlery-Smith, a 24-year-old banker, is a former Tabernacle pupil. Before the age of 14 he attended a mainstream school.

"There were stereotypes that I have to battle against. There was an assumption that the 'big, black boys' would cause trouble.

"It was assumed that I smoked weed (which I didn't) and hung around with a particular group. It was hard for me to break away from that."

The Tabernacle school gave him the right environment in which to achieve. But are those young black Caribbeans in mainstream schools really the victims of institutional racism?

Educationalist Tony Sewell thinks not. He said: "I've yet to see research that doesn't ask pointed questions but instead goes into schools and says 'OK - what's wrong'.

"I've done that and the kids don't blame the teachers. They say it's about peer groups."