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CarAf Children’s Voices
Every now and then The CarAf Centre asks itself are we still an appropriate service for the community, do our children still need our professional support after 35 years of working in Camden and across London. For this reason we asked our students to share what their experiences were of good and bad working practices in school:
Teachers want to be listened to and treated with respect so they should make time to do the same with us.
Nafisah 13 (F) :Teachers can blatantly see that a child is failing or not doing enough work but ignore them and carry on teaching. But they should care and provide more learning support to break the lesson down for children who find it difficult.
Maya 13: We need more Teaching Assistants, because in my school after explaining the work the teacher leaves the classroom and there is no one to answer our questions.
Jessica 11: Some teachers don’t follow the school rules or the behavior charter and immediately give out detention instead of giving a verbal warning first. If you point it out or complain it makes things worse.
Maya 13: Sometimes my Science teacher makes jokes about the lesson, which makes it more fun and interesting. My art teacher gives us choices of things we can do in our lesson. Sometimes a Teacher has a bad lesson in another class and comes into our class with a bad attitude, shouting at us for no reason, which then gives us a bad mood and attitude.
Akueng 14 (F): The bad children, when they are good they get praise, but the good children who are always good don’t get praises.
Cordell 11: Some teachers do take time to explain things and help you. I hate it when I put my hand up in class and Miss sees you and then picks someone else and it happens a lot.
Clesha 13: My friend is white and we were talking. The Teacher told me to stop talking and I said it wasn’t just me and she told me to get out of the classroom. My friend told her that it was not my fault, and that she was talking too. The teacher said it was OK and she should get on with her lesson.
Maya 13 : In my class an Asian girl asked to go toilet and the teacher said no, a white girl asked and the teacher said “Of course your can”. The Asian girl asked again and the teacher said “No, you can go at the end of the day”. The Asian girl complained to the head, and we never saw that teacher again.
Jessica 11: A group of white girls were shouting at my friend threatening to get their brother to beat him up, I started shouting at them to stick up for my friend. The teacher saw me and started shouting at me and sent me to the office. I was excluded for one day, even though my friend tried to explain what happened. The teacher was later fired for being racist to someone else.
