Outside the Classroom

This chapter explains black children's interaction with the support staff and white peers outside the classroom. It presents the findings of the City Council's Report on Racial Harassment in the Education Service corroborate the evidence on black children's experience of racial harassment in education. The chapter also presents data on the interaction between black children and auxiliary staff, and white peers outside the parameters of the classroom. It describes the lived experience of black children around the school, particularly within the vicinity of the playground. In addition to the teachers and the non-teaching staff who work in the classroom, in each school there were to be found female non-teaching staff associated with the schools' meal services – notably 'dinner ladies'. The Burnage Report which was commissioned following the murder of Ahmed Igbal Ullah at Burnage High School revealed the most severe consequence of racial harassment.