to wage that fight as a stepping stone to challenging for the leadership of the mass or teacners To do this it will be necessary to develop and deepen the unity forged so tar by nammering our a programme WEEE pamphlet Some sections of the working class are especially hard hit by the cuts as a result of their particular position in society. This is the case, for example, with women, blacks and youths.
Take the women form the majority of teachers DOM in employment training colleges, their jobs have been disproportionately affected by the cuts. And because of women's role in ine family, it is they who are and will be burdened bv having to care for children sent home from school as part of the implementation of the cuts.
As for blacks, education have the effect of making a deplorable situation worse. Racism manifests itself in the education system in this country by the under-education and depersonalisation or black youth. The education system inculcates a sense of failure and total inadequacy the overall majority of blacks inevitably Tina themse ves an ower classses coll fronted by almost impossible conditions for the acquisition of either qualifications or see winch! cuts in education. Because Instead of schools specialised teachers for teaching, and al teachel expenditure in these departments. Blacks the present cuts in Chorer and Unity Relations, within these areas the more deprived schools, and within these schools the lower classes _ the situation in which black children tend as a rule to find employing more say English as a second language, and increasing the resources which are necessary for the efficient teaching of the subject, they are in fact having to cut back on their Party as a consequence of une caucd tional deprivation suffered by blacks, there exist today very few black teachers. This is reflected in the small proportion of blacks at teacher training colleges and the even smaller number found in schools.
An article entitled Profile of a MultiRacial School' (Education and CommuNov/Dec waxed eloquent about Thornton Boys School as an example of a multi-racial school. This los Indian nanild Asian, and one from the Middle East.
Last week the Department of Education and Science announced the closure of more teacher training colleges. One of these colleges is All Saints College in Tottenham. The college has 550 full-time students, nearly 100 of whom are members of ethnic minorities. This relatively IGHT high proportion of non-whites training as teachers is verv unusual, if not unique. By closing down this college the Government will have succeeded in greatly diminishing the already minimal number of potential black teachers.
LEROY M. GORDON
housing RED WEEKLY 18 November 1976 3
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