Labelling an teacher racism

Gillborn and Youdell

teachers were quicker to discipline black pupils than others for the same behaviour

‘racialised expectations’, teachers expected black pupils to present more discipline problems and misinterpreted their behaviour as threatening or as a challenge to authority.

black pupils felt teachers underestimated their ability and picked on them, most of the conflict between white teachers and black pupils stems from the racial stereotypes teachers hold, rather than the pupils actual behaviour, this may explain the high level of exclusions from school of black boys

Jenny Bourne

schools tend to see black boys as a threat and to label them negatively, leading eventually to exclusion

Osler

black pupils appear more likely to suffer from unrecorded unofficial exclusions and from ‘internal exclusions’ where they are sent out of class.

Black pupils and streaming

A-C economy - negative stereotypes about black pupils ability that some teachers hold means they are more likely to be placed in lower sets or streams

Foster - teachers stereotypes of black pupils as badly behaved could result in them being placed in lower sets than other pupils of similar ability.