ATV Today: 17.06.1981: School Racism

Summary

A Government report out today says West Indian school children do not do as well as their white counterparts partly because of prejudice in the classroom.

Year:

1981

Duration:

0:03:17

Film type:

Colour / Sound

Company:

ATV

Master format:

16mm

Description

Rob Whitehouse visited the Moreton comprehensive school in Wolverhampton, where a quarter of the pupils are black. He talked to headmaster, Roger Pask, black teacher Ernie Harris and to some of the West Indian pupils about prejudice in schools and the findings of the Rampton committee that has published the report. Roger Pask admits that black boys may have issues but points out that black girls are doing well. The vox pops include a view that the teaching of history only looks at white events. Views of pupils taking an exam. Shots of Roger Pask teaching classroom of pupils. (+ 1.10 trims of the classroom and exam sequences).


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