please could someone help me phrase a complaint to my child’s school - I don’t want to post in chat as I will get 1000 posts telling me that racism doesn’t exist.
my child is being bullied at school by a (white) boy, who pushes, shoves, disparages, comments on her every move and word, steals her stuff and damages her property by scribbling on her jacket etc. we are in the process of complaining to class teachers and they are trying to help.
note: we are in Germany and whilst most people are nice there are some with reeeaaalllly backward ideas on race, as you can imagine.
my child is mixed race and the boy has previously expressed incredulation that I, with my darker skin, can be British, and has been saying this to other children. We have told our child to ignore it.
today, after being talked to by the teachers for his bad treatment of my child, in the next lesson he pointed to a black person in the textbook and asked if that was me. And then sang a song to the tune of happy birthday, in which he said I look and smell like an animal and need to go back to the zoo.
now, I am calm(ish) but find this outrageous, and we are putting this in writing to the head teacher. Please could you help me, in English or even in German, give me the words I need , the anti-racist vocabulary. Is it dog-whistling, race-baiting, please help me find the right phrase, because I find the anti-racist discourse in Germany is only just starting, so people don’t even see what it is.
any other suggestions also welcome.
we need this in writing so we can escalate further if needed. thank you.