... shows that in some cases the inequalities have increased in recent years. African-Caribbean and Pakistani pupils, for example, have not shared equally in the rising levels of GCSE attainment."3 "Official figures reveal a disturbing gap between the performance of black Caribbean pupils in GCSE exams and pupils of other ethnic backgrounds." Guardian, February 26th 2003. Pupils from black Caribbean families did far worse than others, with only 30 percent achieving five or more good GCSEs grade A-C in 2002. just half of white pupils, 51 percent achieved this standard while pupils from Indian families achieved 64 percent and Chinese pupils were achieving 73 percent whom outperformed all others.4 There seems to be numerous documents and statistics to support the findings the Black Afro-Caribbean boys do worse at school than any other group. By looking at the behaviour of this particular group there is an understanding as to why this may be happening. Young ...

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