Anti-racism working group

For the past few terms I have been part of the Anti-racism working group in school.

Following on from feedback in other Asian schools, who 'did not want to incite negative relations between China and the US' or insisting that ‘now is not the correct time’ and ‘lets wait and do this properly (…and not doing so)’ or even, in the case of an unnamed school 'do not overreact to events [the death of George Flloyd] in America’.

Fast forward one year, moving to a new country and a new school.

It has been great to see such a proactive staff driven (prompted by alumni) approach to tackling this issue at a levels of the institution.

Yesterday we discussed about how we can celebrate different cultures within our school, how we can help and support those less fortunate, what diversity should look like, as well as how we can raise awareness of these issues and empower our students.

I found the discussions and work that has happened with regards to recruitment particularly interesting- and how we must ‘look at the street level’ as a starting point to 'define what culture is’ within our context, before attempting to tackle any issues we feel need to be addressed.