... with teachers these students were more likely to be placed in lower sets and also placed on courses, which would not fit their needs. Overall, West Indians are underachievers. Asians show average patterns, although Bangladeshis seriously underachieve. The danger here is that teachers form stereotypical views of these groups. All of this discrimination would consequently lead to a poorer education and worse exam results than others. As well as discrimination and stereotyping by teachers within schools there are also many 'outside' explanations on why children from ethnic-minorities under achieve in education. One of these reasons is linguistic deprivation; it is easy to understand that some student will experience difficulties in learning because English is not their first language. There is some evidence that speakers of black British English may be labelled as less able because of the form of language that they use. A consequence is that such students may well ...

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