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Racist Bullying A Key Priority
DFES
publishes new guidelines for schools.
The Department for Education and Skills has published new guidelines
developed in partnership with anti-racist organisations, schools, professional
association and community groups to help schools identify and stop racist
bullying.
It is now compulsory for schools to have policies in place to prevent and tackle bullying. The recently published Education and Schools Inspections Bill will give teachers a legal right to discipline pupils, strengthening their authority to take firm action on bullying. It will also send a strong message to parents and pupils that bullying will not be tolerated with court-imposed parenting orders to compel parents of bullies to attend parenting classes or face £1000 fines.
Research sponsored by the Department for Education
and Skills in mainly white schools found that 25 per cent of the
pupils from minority ethnic backgrounds in the sample had experienced
racist name-calling within the previous seven days.(Minority Ethnic Pupils
in Mainly White Schools, DfES research report 365, 2002).
Schools Minister Jacqui Smith said: 'No child should have to experience
bullying of any kind, and tackling racist bullying in schools is a key
priority. These guidelines will form a key part of schools’ compulsory
anti-bullying policies, help them create an ethos where racist bullying
rarely happens, and ensure that it will be dealt with convincingly if
it does.'
US civil rights activist Rosa Parks who challenged racial segregation on buses, will be used as a role model in lessons proposed by the guidelines as well as history lessons focusing on the contributions of servicemen and women from South Asia, Africa and the Caribbean in both world wars, and a study of the Sheffield United anti-racism website.
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