blaze wrote:
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I've noticed that they keep saying black caribbean children. What about Black African kids? What's the statistics for them? Do the white teachers even distinguish between them?
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Under the Race Relation Ammendament Act 2000schools are now requiredto log the ethnic origins of their pupils! So yes they do distinguish Black pupils in to sub categories: Black Caribbean/Black African (which also has sub sections of Nigerian/Ghanian etc) Black/White Caribbean/African and Black other; which is the smaller groups of African pupils. They are required to do this because much research re: underachievement found that schools just lumped all Black pupils in to one big section- when they eventually made these distinctions they found that Black 'Caribbean' boys were by far the lowest achievers. Black Africanboys are also performing below average, but they are doing marginally better that Caribbean boys.