A good friend of mine is a teacher in Accrington. Very experienced, been in classrooms for twenty years and has been head of science. Yesterday I met him for a pint and he was visibly upset. He’’’d been dragged into the middle of what he described as one of the worst mass brawls he’d ever encountered, and given some of the inner-city schools he’s taught in, that really is no shallow claim. The kids were armed - knuckledusters, lengths of piping - and he said he was terrified knives were going to be produced.
He and a couple of other teachers broke things up and main protagonists were identified and will doubtless be excluded. Sadly, though, the cause seems to have been almost entirely race related - it was the white lads against the Asian lads, in a manner my mate reckons he hasn’’t seen in school for at least fifteen years. He doesn’’t think this is coincidental with the general rise in insipid racism that the lid recently seems to have been prised from in Britain. He’’’s had parents in at evenings complaining about the existence of Asian teachers recently too, something else he hadn’t come across for years.
He was that fed up last night he said like he felt like giving up. It’s a crying shame.
He and a couple of other teachers broke things up and main protagonists were identified and will doubtless be excluded. Sadly, though, the cause seems to have been almost entirely race related - it was the white lads against the Asian lads, in a manner my mate reckons he hasn’’t seen in school for at least fifteen years. He doesn’’t think this is coincidental with the general rise in insipid racism that the lid recently seems to have been prised from in Britain. He’’’s had parents in at evenings complaining about the existence of Asian teachers recently too, something else he hadn’t come across for years.
He was that fed up last night he said like he felt like giving up. It’s a crying shame.
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