about racism

Every society has a problem of racism and it will never be wiped out completely as soon as there will be different races. There are might occur many types of racism, but still the meaning will be the same: discrimination, abusive/aggressive behavior towards the person of another race. Almost every social group might experience racism: teachers, students, workers, etc.
Racism in schools is widespread and only among students but also in relations teacher and student. Even if a teacher tries to treat all the students fairly and in the same way, discrimination occurs. Usually racism is seen towards black race and Asians. Young black people, especially boys, considered to be badly behaved and so teachers paid more negative attention to them. One of the reasons of their ‘laddish behavior’, in opinion of Tony Sewell, is that they lack of role models: “One of the major problems is a lack of sympathetic adults, whether they are role models or just sounding boards.”. They didn’t have a good example of a male behavior and so when they grow up they try to show off and by rejecting the curriculum and not paying attention, make themselves look more independently and serious. Another reason is a stereotype. Many teachers are afraid of black students as even if they don’t know the person they already expect laddish behavior from him and so already act negatively towards him by not giving him a chance to show his abilities: "The boys complain that there is very little discipline because teachers seem afraid to challenge them. These boys are not in an environment where there are consequences for their actions and we should be asking questions about the lack of ethos, expectations and discipline in some schools." And so this racism will affect his future educational attainment and discourage from working
If we look at the statistics, racism is very strong and unemployment among non-white races is high as a result of not getting higher degrees and low educational achievement in school. Racism might occur from white race because of many reasons: differences in skin, behavior, norms, values or just misunderstanding. 

There are some other statistics about black students:
- they are more often subject to ’permanent exclusion’ from school (DfE 1992)
- black students are between four and six times are more likely to be excluded than their white peers (Gillborn and Gipps, 1996)
- African-Caribbean are seen ‘as having “low ability” and potential discipline problems’ (Mac an Ghalil, 1988)

These are examples of stereotyping within the society and it is unlikely that these stereotypes disappear but they might become insignificant. The problem is that the myth of a black challenge is handed down from one generation to another and teachers also transmit this myth by believing in it and trying to find rove for it. For example, ‘some students with family origins in the Caribbean turn their eyes away from teacher’s gaze; it has been argued that this is a cultural trait signifying respect. ’(Driver 1979). However, teachers don’t want to accept others’ values and see this action as a rejection of the authority and all this creates racism. 

(Source of statistics: Race and Higher education, Tariq Modood and Tony Acland, issued by Policies Studies Institute)