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MORE than half of all ethnic minority teachers have faced racist abuse in Britain’s schools, a teaching union has found.
Research by the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT), published at its BME Teachers’ Consultation Conference in Birmingham yesterday, found that 53 per cent of all BME teachers have reported receiving verbal abuse in the past year.
Of this number, 42 per cent say that they are not helped by senior management in dealing with unruly pupils.
With 170,000 children living in poverty in north-east England and teachers leaving in droves over 20 per cent real-terms pay cuts since 2010, all while private companies siphon off billions, it is time to unite and fight for education, writes MATT WRACK
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