‘Shocking’ rise in school suspensions for racist and homophobic abuse
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdjpx7rnredo
Posted by Tartan_Samurai
‘Shocking’ rise in school suspensions for racist and homophobic abuse
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdjpx7rnredo
Posted by Tartan_Samurai
16 Comments
What’s shocking about it? The party leading in the polls explicitly supports these things, and their “opposition” has been one of the most anti-trans governments in Europe
This pride month I’m going to be louder than ever. We had 3~ years (2019-2022~) of true acceptance and visibility and you people decided that was too much for you. We are here and we are not going anywhere.
Well yeah, because they’ve only just started to take it seriously.
Racism and homophobia was way worse 10, 20, 30 years ago, but people didn’t give as much of a fuck.
Is it happening more or just being recorded and acted upon more?
Social media needs some regulation, its absolutely shocking some of the things said on main stream social media, things that would have only been on places like 4chan a few years back.
In my day there were zero suspensions for abuse, or for physical violence. That doesn’t mean things were better…
There was no racism though, mainly because there wasn’t really anyone to be racist at.
You can tell people here aren’t reading it, completely ignoring the rise in disablist abuse a good portion of the article covers and the cost of resources being ignored.
just wait until after the first election where 16 year olds can vote. lots of punishments and “referalls” for anyone who votes against the schools mandated politics
Why is that student next to a human sized mound of grease?
As a generation we are genuinely no where near as advanced as we think we are
The fact that this is still a problem is just baffling
You can trace all of this back to the psychotic ideology that is neoliberalism. Individualism erodes society. It is anti-social economics.
And for the first time I’m actually questioning who are the racists? Who is the racism aimed at? Seriously i wouldnt be surprised if it was the reverse of what most people assume. I wonder if the article will tell me?
Totally anecdotal I googled Boriswave numbers to compare.
Bbc articles
“Suspensions linked to abuse rising
Spring term suspensions by year linked to abuse against race, sexuality or gender identity, or disability, England
2021 – 1,131
2022 – 4,100
2023 – 4,789
2024 – 5,629
2025 – 6,883
Source: Department for Education data
Figures for Spring 2021 impacted by pandemic”
Google/Wiki on Boriswave numbers
“The “Boriswave” is a political term describing the surge of legal immigration into the UK following Brexit and the introduction of the points-based visa system under Boris Johnson’s government. It highlights a period (roughly 2021–2024) of unprecedented non-EU migration and population growth.”
Has anyone seem any analysis discussing if there is a link?
Any time anyone asks why do we need pride: this. And it’s even worse for disabled kids who probably have even fewer resources to deal with bullies. My heart goes out to this kid’s mother, what a horrible thing to go through.
I’m probably going to get blasted for this but this is just my experience as a teacher.
The majority of these incidences come from Christian and Muslim boys.
It’s often coupled with opinions like “women shouldn’t have sex before marriage” and “abortion should be made illegal in all circumstances”.
The homophobic and transphobic comments are always about how it biologically doesn’t make any sense. Even though they all learn there is scientificallt more than two genders, and the location of men’s prostate gland.
It’s all pretty disheartening to be honest.
From talking with kids near me, they reacon people ‘deserve it’ for some reason but can’t exactly say why. Sounds a lot like peer pressure to not look weak is why they target others who do.
When I was at school this sort of thing was always nipped in the bud as soon as it was spotted, parents seemed to be more involved in what their kids were doing , but today this seems to be more passive and no involvement? Hope I’m wrong.