8/14/2019 Petition - end dicrimination against black & Asian students

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Petition to:End discrimination and victimisation

against black & Asian students

Equal, quality education for all

Speak the plain truth about racism1. Black and Asian students and students from other ethnic minorities are facing an increasingly hostile environment in

Britains schools, colleges and universities. Black and Asian students are treated as a threat and subjected toincreasingly regimented education. Black, Asian and other ethnic minority students who speak the plain truth aboutracism, or assert their independence and identity, face repression and victimisation.

2. Our schools, colleges and universities are becoming more and more unequal, selective, and segregated on raciallines. Black and Asian students face racial stereotyping and racial slights, and are far more likely to be suspended orexpelled from schools than white students.

3. When black and Asian students and their parents speak up and try to get these conditions changed for the better theircomplaints are dismissed or they are treated as trouble-makers.

4. At the same time black and Asian youth face a constant pattern of racist harassment from the police, including beingstopped and searched at a far greater rate than white youth.

5. These stifling conditions make it impossible for black and Asian students to receive the quality of education, and theopportunities, development and respect that all students need and deserve. Such conditions constitute an extremeand unacceptable pattern of discrimination.

6. These conditions divide the youth of our community along racial lines in ways that harm the education and distort thedevelopment of all youth - white youth as well as black, Asian and other minority youth. This prevents the growth ofunderstanding and respect between the diverse racial groups that make up our community.

7. These conditions are a breeding ground for racial conflicts and racist attacks.

8. Failure to address these problems and decisively improve these conditions will lead to a disaster for the youth of ourcommunity, and for the community as a whole.

9. We the undersigned students, youth, parents, and community members and organisations declare our

commitment to solving these problems. We call on the Government, the education authorities and theschools, colleges and universities to transform their policies and their actions to bring an end to thediscrimination, unequal treatment, racial slights and victimisation experienced by the youth in our schools.

10. We will not rest until our schools and colleges are places where all students receive, equal, qualityeducation, and are able to develop their talents and pursue their studies in an atmosphere free from racialdiscrimination, harassment and attacks.

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