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What’s so disgusting is that @BelfairsAcademy made it seem like I couldn’t get the grades to attend a grammar school at A level. But guess what, I achieved beyond the grades required to get into EVERY grammar school in Southend. https://twitter.com/jennzngwux/status/1266031760602796032
Here’s the thing, other students with the same academic ability as I were pushed and encouraged to attend these grammar schools that offered subjects like government and politcs that weren’t taught at @BelfairsAcademy .
There was no way I was going to limit myself to their expectations of me!!! Separately, my RE teacher Shawn Carroll, watched and ignored the racist comments made by the boys in my class and entertained such behaviours.
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With the sixth form situation, my mum was present at that meeting with the careers advisors from @BelfairsAcademy Post 16 and felt the negative response when I shared my grammar school aspirations.
Loooool I could write a whole dissertation on the institutional racism that happened at this school and it wasn’t felt by me alone! Separately, we need to talk about the students in my year that observed & initiated this severe racism that happened in my entire secondary life.
My GCSE art teacher stood by and allowed the boys in my class to make racist comments EVERY lesson. My art teacher couldn’t control their poor behaviour in general but she never reported them for their racist slander.
When my art group was split based on academic ability, I wasn’t transferred into the higher ability class even though my forecast grade was an A. I was still stuck with the same racist boys for the rest of the year & oh yeah I came out with an A grade even amidst the oppression.
@lfconsiglio as former students we need to vocalise on our experiences and share it, in order to change the future for current students who may be dealing with racism or observing racism. #BlackLivesMatter 
One thing that hurt me so much and disappointed me is that a boy in my year who’s Mauritian inflicted racism upon me and even entertained it when his white peers did. He’d slap my forehead, made fun of my lips and compared me to black footballers.
He made it seem appropriate for these white boys to continue to degrade my culture. He imposed the ‘well if ****** is doing it then it can’t seem bad and I’m not racist’ attitude. His friend called me Tameika in the whole of yr 11 cause my name didn’t sound ‘black enough’.
And I will never understand why this guy was racist to me even though he himself was African.
While the boys at my school showed overt racism, the girls expressed so much covert racism.
And it’s peak cause the ones who weren’t racist to either teachers or students, they just observed it and were silent. There are some students who did call out on the racism, however the degree of casual racism in the school made no change when they held those accountable.
I actually remember one boy telling me to not tell the teachers about them calling me names and comparing me to black football players like ‘Gervinho’ and ‘demba ba’ or they’ll say that I’m a snake and a snitch. This shows he was fully aware of the overt racism.
