... a mixture of CSE and O-levels, but only students who did O-levels could go on to do higher education and A-levels. According to the results table, it appears that Afro-Caribbean children were treated differently to Whites or Asians. Afro-Caribbean's who scored the same as White pupils in a test were put into CSE groups instead of O-level groups. This trend seems to run throughout the 4 subjects that were examined: English, Maths, French and Physics. The Deputy Head Teacher of this particular school later admitted that the settings of the groups was not solely based on the scores, as perhaps it should have been, but it was also based on the teachers opinion of the individual. The Deputy Head was quoted to have said -"it is the case that the school tends to put dutiful children in O-level groups." One English teacher also said that Afro-Caribbean children were a ...

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