... employed. Firstly only children of African or Afro-Caribbean backgrounds were interviewed, this fails to give us a clear picture of racism and discrimination in schools, as the other ethnic minority pupils were left out of the investigation. Secondly, there is the question as to what is perceived as racism. In some of the cases of alleged racism, it may have been nothing more than a pupil using racism as an excuse for being told off by a teacher, rather than bad behaviour. Thirdly, only a small sample of pupils was taken. Clearly if the Black Child Report were to claim that racism is inherent then a much larger sample of pupils would have to be taken. Mairtin Mac an Ghaill conducted a study of 25 Afro-Caribbean and Asian students in sixth form from 1986 to 1988. All the students he interviewed poke of the pervasiveness of white racism. However, they disagreed ...

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