My son's primary school streams children all the way through the school for half the day and I have become aware that there appear to be a higher proportion of black children in the lowest streams and more white children in the highest streams (school is about 50/50 mix). Is this institutional racism? It's a good school and I'm sure they have put the children in streams only according to ability/attainment but research into streaming usually shows that streaming is better for those in the higher streams than the lower ones. I'm not sure whether to raise my concern with the school as a)I don't have the hard data to back up my observations, b) my son is in the more mixed middle stream so I am not personally affected by it and c) I don't want to damage my relationship with the school. What do you think is the best thing to do?
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