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babygirl44wrote:in the Two 7 Year Olds Cast as Monkeysthread:

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Sorry but the mother DID NOT overreact at all and if I was the childs mother I would take them out of the school because there must of been many low-key racist acts commited against these kids but they were too young to understand. However, the teachers went too far this time and got caught.

This incident is probably the tip of the iceberg. If your child is the only black kid in the school, you must watch and monitor it like a hawk. I suffered from being only one of a handful black kids at my primary school. Some of the teachers were properly racist but because I had no proof I couldn't do anything. I was a higher than average reader, in fact top of my class when I was bout 7/8.

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I was put in a special reading group for high-level readers by my class teacher. The other teacher who was running the club dashed me out after 2 weeks because she said that I couldn't read well enough to be in the special group and wanted to put me back in the lower class although I was being held back by the other kids. She had taped us reading aloud, but the tape she played that was supposed to be of me reading badly was actually of a white girl called Kelly. The other kids stood up for me saying it was Kelly on the tape, even Kelly admitted to this but the teacher removed me and I KNOW it was because it sickened her to see a black pupil excelling. My dad couldn't bring himself to believe that they would do this to me so didn't do anything about it (anyway I ended up being only one of a handful of pupils of that year that went on to University, so she didn't win).

Futhermore, although some Afro-carib boys are bad, much of the reason why they don't take enough interest in school is because the school doesn't take any interest at all in their progress and even (as in my case) goes out their way to hinder it. Look at what that mampie bluefoot did to that balck child in Derby by writing the word black-bas**rd on her forehead, how many times do you think that child suffered before the carer went too far and got caught out?

Finally basic mathematics tells me that these kids were discriminated against. If there are only 2 black kids out of a year of 100, that would mean that 100% of the black kids got picked to be a monkey when (if the names had been picked randomly) they should have only had a 2% chance of being cast as a monkey. That doesn't sound random at all, in fact even the worst gambler wouldn't have put money on those odds.