Racism in primary

[rka2017]

How to deal with racism in schools and outside of school? Just put up with it ?

In school, complain. The teachers (or head if it is coming from the staff) should be stopping g it immediately.

Outside school is harder. Do you mean at the school gate or totally separate from school, e.g. at the park?

Can you give a more specific example of what you’ve witnessed with regards to racism in primary schools?
My primary school takes any form of racism extremely seriously. The consequences are are as severe as it gets when you’re dealing with 6 year olds.

Depends OP 🤷🏻‍♀️ either way I would talk to the school so they can include in their school day to talk about these issues

Of course not, a pupil in DS's reception class got expelled for repeated racist abuse of another boy. I worry about the child who got expelled, it's not their fault their parents are so awful But it's not something that should be tolerated and the school were all over it as soon as it happened

Of course you should NOT just put up with it. What sort of life would that be. It is unacceptable, and you need to call it out. Complain to school.

For example saying in school “ oh your skin look like poo” outside activity which was happen in school building saying like” oh you go brownies because you got brown ski”.
Outside school secondary school boys always look us like aliens and staring at us and try to wind up us want to start fight.
Last Friday secondary school boy hit with heavy book bag on my chest , when I was looking at him(the boy and me walking opposite direction) didn’t say sorry.

We are the only different ethnic group in the village. Only recently other ethnics moving to the village.
Everyday other mother, who moved recently ( different ethnic) complaining how her son going through problems in school even she complained to head teacher, teacher.
No one playing with her son and hitting and bullying etc etc
My child going to start secondary soon and I am thinking it’s going to get worse there

@rka2017

We are the only different ethnic group in the village. Only recently other ethnics moving to the village. Everyday other mother, who moved recently ( different ethnic) complaining how her son going through problems in school even she complained to head teacher, teacher. No one playing with her son and hitting and bullying etc etc My child going to start secondary soon and I am thinking it’s going to get worse there

They say why do people who are non-white don't integrate, why do they stick together? Well this is fucknig why!

We used to live in a very white village ( black and white couple, biracial kids) and just got fucking sick of it. Moved to a more diverse area and these problems went away. Life's too short OP, if you can move, just move for the sake of the kids and your sanity.
Even if you think you can't move, you probably can and must.

I could give you a long list of ways to fight, to try and rise above, find allies, how it would probably get better the longer you put up with it and your 'put up with' as part of the landscape, never really accepted.

In my experience villages like that , where the hostility is there and blatant can never be justified.

We didn't have it even half as bad as you, more sly and subtle, kids left out of things, etc rather than physical attacks etc, but we thought fuck it and got out.

More cookies , yes you are right , since primary finished and we are renting going to move out. But the other family can’t they just bought the house and moved in .
When we go London I noticed kids mingling very quickly in park and other public places because those kids used multi culture.
We like village life as it is quite and not noisy

The schools definitely have to address that situation.

The kindest thing you could do is actually send an email to those and other schools in the village so they can urgently include talks about this issue. You may be leaving but the other family isn't and also these kids will grow up learning it's ok to taunt others for their skin colour

The activity happen outside school I didn’t leave it complain to event organisers but they just ignored

@rka2017

More cookies , yes you are right , since primary finished and we are renting going to move out. But the other family can’t they just bought the house and moved in . When we go London I noticed kids mingling very quickly in park and other public places because those kids used multi culture. We like village life as it is quite and not noisy

There are lots of peaceful places, not noisy where a non-white person can live.

We live in East Sussex and love it. You don't have to move to a inner city to find diversity (not that living in an inner city is bad) and there are plenty of villages not full of racists, who treat people as they find them.

Most mixed or non-white families know what they're letting themselves in for if they move into an all white village/part of town- we expect stares, the odd nasty comment etc, but that has to be balanced out with meeting non-judgemental people. If that doesn't happen, your friend needs to make a 12 month plan to get out if they've just purchased a house.

Yes I am not saying everyone in the village same. There are some very nice people treat us equally

Please take this up with the school and insist that they address it. You and your dc should not have to tolerate this at all, and the school has a duty to act.

I don’t think other family will move out as she is parent governor and will raise the issues to the school to educate children.
The problem is even school teaching children when they go home children copy their parent's behaviour.

I complained to the particular child’s secondary school and school replied ask the child’s name.