Examples of racist behaviour in a school context
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telling “ethnic” jokes e.g. Irish jokes, Jewish jokes 	making fun of people’s clothes or food	wearing badges or insignia e.g. swastikas 	
making stereotyped statements about particular ethnic or cultural groups	refusing to work or play with students and people of particular cultural or religious backgrounds	refusing to sit next to students from different cultural or religious backgrounds	
students forming gangs based on ethnicity	using terms such as “wog”, “slopehead” , chink, refo etc	ridiculing people’s accents or names	
Using words of images online that cause offence or hurt towards certain groups	not allowing students to speak their first language at school	students picking on or bullying students from different cultural or religious groups	
lower educational outcomes for students of some cultural groups than from others	teachers having lower expectations of students from some cultural groups than others	writing graffiti or slogans directed against particular ethnic or cultural groups	

Examples of racist behaviour in a school context continued…
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excluding peers from social groups, based on their culture or religion	saying “Why don’t you go back to where you come from?”	mimicking the accents or gestures of people from different ethnic or cultural groups	
allocating tasks (to teachers or students) according to their culture or religion	laughing at a racist joke	making fun of the physical appearance of people from different cultural or religious groups	
making judgements about a person’s language ability according to his or her accent	teachers from minority ethnic groups being given the more difficult or low achieving classes	teachers using examples that show stereotyped views of particular cultural or religious groups	
forcing students to participate in activities that conflict with their religious beliefs 	Not reporting racist behaviour to a teacher	promoting publications such as magazines opposed to particular cultural or religious groups	
making assumptions about people’s abilities or preferences based on their religious or cultural background	making assumptions about family values of people from particular cultural or religious groups	intimidating behaviour towards people from other cultural or religious groups e.g. stealing, threatening, stalking	
ignoring someone being racist in the playground to another student	higher rate of suspension among students of some cultural or religious groups than others	wearing clothes such as t-shirts with slogans against particular cultural or religious group