>[Guardian: School governors in England to be offered anti-racism training](https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/jan/25/school-governors-england-offered-anti-racism-training)
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>Free online anti-racism training is to be made available for the first time for the 300,000 governors and trustees who control recruitment of senior staff across maintained schools, academies and multi-academy trusts in England.
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>The move comes amid concerns about a stark lack of racial diversity among headteachers. Only 7.3% of headteachers in state-funded schools in England come from minority-ethnic backgrounds, compared with 21.5% of the working-age population. …
A head of a swanky school bemoans the lack of opportunities afforded her, because of her skin colour… despite being head of the school? What am I missing?
> Only 7.3% of headteachers in state-funded schools in England come from minority-ethnic backgrounds, compared with 21.5% of the working-age population
One stat in isolation can be used to show anything.
What percentage of teachers are from a minority ethnic background? Are BAME people underrepresented in teaching generally? They’re overrepresented in fields like medicine for example.
I dont know what its like internally but a white, male friend is deputy head of a school with a black, female head and some parents, apparently, persistently talk to him like he is in charge.
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>[Guardian: School governors in England to be offered anti-racism training](https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/jan/25/school-governors-england-offered-anti-racism-training)
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>Free online anti-racism training is to be made available for the first time for the 300,000 governors and trustees who control recruitment of senior staff across maintained schools, academies and multi-academy trusts in England.
>
>The move comes amid concerns about a stark lack of racial diversity among headteachers. Only 7.3% of headteachers in state-funded schools in England come from minority-ethnic backgrounds, compared with 21.5% of the working-age population. …
A head of a swanky school bemoans the lack of opportunities afforded her, because of her skin colour… despite being head of the school? What am I missing?
> Only 7.3% of headteachers in state-funded schools in England come from minority-ethnic backgrounds, compared with 21.5% of the working-age population
One stat in isolation can be used to show anything.
What percentage of teachers are from a minority ethnic background? Are BAME people underrepresented in teaching generally? They’re overrepresented in fields like medicine for example.
I dont know what its like internally but a white, male friend is deputy head of a school with a black, female head and some parents, apparently, persistently talk to him like he is in charge.
Yes – there is systemic racism :
https://fullfact.org/education/are-white-working-class-boys-least-likely-go-university/
“If you’re a white, working-class boy, you’re less likely than anybody else in Britain to go to university.”
I’m so glad that the trend of the last decade is starting to reverse.
These articles keep getting pumped out but it’s rapidly reaching the point where they’re yelling to an empty theatre