food4thought wrote:
in episode 2, i felt sorry for the girl in the non-grammar school who was expelled. she was a high achiever but was misunderstood i think. for example, she was having a conversation with a year head,alas not productive. but then another teacher barged in and told her off and sent her home. i think the second teacher had the attitude problem, not her. then she was threatened to be expelled again... there was a hidden agenda here i think. the student was already traumatised by missing 2 weeks of schooling! i remember teachers like these when i was at school.
Watching the programme with other adult members of my family;wife and mother. We all couldn't help having the same feeling that there was an element of racial stereotyping going on there.
Why when the initial head was getting through to Chichi did the other teacher butt in so aggressively? It just appeared that she thought she 'had an attitude'. I found the whole incident rather disturbing.
We also had teachers like that at my grammar back in the day. In those days they were quite happy to pick on me and other BME boys,using all kinds of racial epithets...
So i wasn't the only one who noticed this then! if you watched last night's episode, you would have seen a different side to the very same staff member. She was very accommodating and helpful to the young guy who was a under performing and clearly not bothered by his education or the assistance that was being offered. The girl from episode 2 was no angel but the teacher clearly had a problem with her. It is very uncomfortable to point out racial bias but this was very obvious and hard to ignore.