Black Caribbean Children
Black Caribbean children experience significant disadvantage in the British education system. Discuss
In a Guardian article (January 2002) by Diane Abbott, MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, she mentions how African and Caribbean children enter the education system doing as well as whites and Asians in tests until they reach the age of 11 when the descent begins.
While some people blame gang culture and rap music for the decline of educational achievements amongst black pupils, specifically black boys, others take a different view also including institutional racism in the education system.
The education system in the united kingdom is dominated by the W.A.S.P profile ( white anglo saxon protestant) and this is prevalent in educational …show more content…
Abbott has argued that white female teachers are not use to dealing with young black boys who are usually physically bigger than white boys for their age, which can intimidate them; while others have argued that teachers perceive black boys in a negative light based on media stereotypes.
In some cases, shortcomings in the curriculum may cause underachievement and disaffection. A number of witnesses thought lessons were not always relevant, or sensitive, to young black people's lives. Some mentioned the lack of black history or cultural awareness as a demotivating factor in the classroom. In other cases, schooling was "dull" and did not take account of "where young people are in their own development, or what is happening to them in their …show more content…
In some case this causes teachers to make less of an effort with students and so they are put into the lower banded groups. This means that students are only able to get the lower grades in their exams because the maximum they can achieve is a C or in the past a D. This has a massive effect on the data collected in this field. A report by the department for schools and education stated that a third of the most capable black Caribbean pupils were not entered to take the hardest papers when entered at 14 and that in 2007 44.9% of black Caribbean and 47.3 % of mixed white and black Caribbean heritage, achieved 5 or more a*-c grades, compared to 57.3% nationally.
The gap between black Caribbean achievement and the national average at GCSE has narrowed only 8 percentage points in four years. In 2005 there twice as many black Caribbean men in prison in the UK than in university.(Curtis,P
In a Guardian article (January 2002) by Diane Abbott, MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, she mentions how African and Caribbean children enter the education system doing as well as whites and Asians in tests until they reach the age of 11 when the descent begins.
While some people blame gang culture and rap music for the decline of educational achievements amongst black pupils, specifically black boys, others take a different view also including institutional racism in the education system.
The education system in the united kingdom is dominated by the W.A.S.P profile ( white anglo saxon protestant) and this is prevalent in educational …show more content…
Abbott has argued that white female teachers are not use to dealing with young black boys who are usually physically bigger than white boys for their age, which can intimidate them; while others have argued that teachers perceive black boys in a negative light based on media stereotypes.
In some cases, shortcomings in the curriculum may cause underachievement and disaffection. A number of witnesses thought lessons were not always relevant, or sensitive, to young black people's lives. Some mentioned the lack of black history or cultural awareness as a demotivating factor in the classroom. In other cases, schooling was "dull" and did not take account of "where young people are in their own development, or what is happening to them in their …show more content…
In some case this causes teachers to make less of an effort with students and so they are put into the lower banded groups. This means that students are only able to get the lower grades in their exams because the maximum they can achieve is a C or in the past a D. This has a massive effect on the data collected in this field. A report by the department for schools and education stated that a third of the most capable black Caribbean pupils were not entered to take the hardest papers when entered at 14 and that in 2007 44.9% of black Caribbean and 47.3 % of mixed white and black Caribbean heritage, achieved 5 or more a*-c grades, compared to 57.3% nationally.
The gap between black Caribbean achievement and the national average at GCSE has narrowed only 8 percentage points in four years. In 2005 there twice as many black Caribbean men in prison in the UK than in university.(Curtis,P