Racism remains widespread in Australia's primary and secondary schools, with discrimination coming from both students and teachers, ANU researchers find.
60% of students report witnessing racial discrimination by other students.
78% of students said they were able to make friends with students from different racial, ethnic or cultural backgrounds. Tanzanian Year 11 student Emmanuel Asante was threatened on the grounds of his south Sydney school by another student, who called him a "black monkey" and ordered him to get off the soccer pitch.
"We talk about the numbers of students who experience racism and we look at the percentages. But it's important to remember that behind every number is a student, a family, a community." Religious intolerance was also found to be rife, with one in four students surveyed reporting they'd been bullied because of their faith.
Ms Ibrahim, who graduated two years ago, describes herself as having a "big personality" but "at school I felt small".Sundus Ibrahim has developed anxiety as a result of racism at school.Teachers can also be racist, the students told researchers: one in 10 said their teachers was racist towards them and nearly half said they had seen teachers racially discriminating against other students.
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