The great British School swap..

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Any one watching this?? Finding it really interesting so far.

oh and Tamworth really is a very very white working class area

I live in an area where over 90% of the population are Asian Muslims(as of the last census and the children don’t mix. Even the very young children.

Sadly as a brown person living in Britain it doesn’t surprise me at all.

When I was a teenager I was thought why words like half cast or coloured were not okay and why they were offensive and to use mixed race or black ect that was over 20 years ago. I can understand a teenager being ignorant if they haven't been thought the difference but an adult must be using then with intent

The ignorance of both sides is astounding. That mum's comments .

I was just wondering if any of the parents would be on here. I missed which one your daughter was.

It really highlights the importance of a multicultural society

Hope they show this on Gogglebox

I can hear the Michaels son's sharp intake of horrified breath already

Oh god that mum is talking about her husband's vasectomy🤣🤣🤣

Worried about the kids being radicalised 😮

I think Kiran is rude and I didn't like the way she ganged up with her cousin against Aidan but then it is very edited

The Uncle has a very good and refreshing attitude , lovely to see how he counselled the two girls.

my daughter isn't on much because she's like me - lefty liberal and doesn't use those words - but if your language isn't challenged and you never meet people who say 'no that's wrong' how do you know to change? That was the point of the program

And now you see what teachers are doing battle with, daily.

I teach in a 'naice' rural area.

It's choc full of kids filled with bigotry and racism and attitudes that make me beyond angry. Mostly it comes from home, but also from the utter drivel they absorb online.

It really highlights the importance of a multicultural society it does but it also highlights the need to actually MIX within it - not to just live in it

I'm waiting for it to go on catch up but the few clips I've seen I'm seriously cringing.

Last year I had a 16 year old boy (I work in an educational role) openingly tell the class during a discussion 'all Muslims should go back to their own country as they all want to bomb us'. I took him to the side and debated the issue (i.e. a lot of Muslims are born in this country, what about the mayor of London etc etc). I asked him how many Muslims he had met who were terrorists... Basically he had never actually met, or spoke to a Muslim in his whole life.

@ghostyslovesheets your daughter was in the show? What was the experience like from your POV? Have so many questions but realise you probably can’t give that much away after just one episode

I think it's been very interesting and will definitely see how it evolves. I thought the mum was friendly and open enough, just came from a place of ignorance. Which I guess is the point of it. And yes, ghosty, I suspected it would be carefully edited as these things always are, but eye opening watching nevertheless.

I've recorded this to watch later.

The secondary school I went to was culturally and racially diverse.
The secondary schools my children go to are culturally and racially diverse (my children are white, but the majority of pupils are BAME).
The school where I work is culturally and racially diverse (the majority of pupils are BAME).

So it will be interesting to learn about a different sort of setting.

they filmed so much more than they used - there was a whole ceremony at the end where all the kids made really good speeches and they didn't use any of it - it has been edited so that the most controversial and OTT bits are what you see

it was actually really good fun and the kids all got on so well - the parents where lovely as well - it evolves over the 3 episodes so don't judge just yet

Musicposy spot on - Kate - the mum there - was actually really open and enthusiastic and up for it she was lovely - warm and generous as where her host family

she comes across badly but she was my fave person I met during the filming - she was so honest

Wasn’t very happy with the treatment of the trans child. The girls interrogating him/ her were bullying and he/ she shouldn’t have been put in that position.I get it’s reality tv but no child should have to justify/ explain their sexuality and be put on the spot like that. Don’t think it put either side in a very good light. Was a good advert against religious schools and the need for more integration.

I think homophobia is as much an issue as racism. I hope it gets tackled.

Although some posters have highlighted the fact that the racism is from both sides there is a leaning towards the feeling that the main perpetrators are the tamworth kids. That is just not the case. Both sides have obviously been carefully chosen and have worryingly prejudiced views. I find it frightening that the divide is so defined. How can communities be so cut off from one another in this day and age? In my ignorance i thight racism was a generation thing: i.e. that kids were more wordly today.

kids learn from what they experience - if that is not multicultural then that's the issue. I would say that there where 24 kids involved and not all of them where so extreme