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aggi-
I'm starting to wonder whether it's just selective memory...
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Your state comp in the 90s sounds a lot different to mine.
Indeed, although mine (state comp, late 80s / early 90s) was different again, as it was as far from cosmopolitan as you could imagine which, ironically, meant there wasn't really much racism as there wasn't really anyone to be racist to/about. Close to 1100 pupils (during the 5 years I was there) and there was only one that wouldn't be described as "White British" and she was from those distant furrin lands called Spain. (Ah, one more, this doubled to 2 in 1990 when a Kuwaiti lad joined our year.)
Rik_Van_Looy
Greenbank
It's a good point, and I'm not suggesting for a second that it's on the schools or the kids themselves to deal with this, more just a sad reflection of how far we still have to go.
Contrasting it with my experience at a state comp in the 80s -90s back when the progressive liberal agenda was widely accepted, political correctness was still considered to be a vehicle for social justice and all the teachers were card carrying lefties
You got expelled for saying something racist and ostracised by your peers for holding right wing views.
Assuming that generation of kids are now accepting, enabling or propagating the shite views my kids face I'm wondering whether those attitudes were there all along but not voiced for reasons of self preservation, image management or good manners...
which brings us neatly back to: