Subnormal: A British Scandal: Black children were wrongly sent to special needs schools in 1970s
A new BBC documentary has revealed how hundreds of black children were wrongly sent to schools for the 'emotionally subnormal' in the 1960s and 70s because of 'rampant racism'. Subnormal: A British Scandal, which airs tonight on BBC2 at 9pm, explores how students who were incorrectly deemed to have a limited intellectual ability where sent to ESN schools, which categorised them as having moderate to severe learning disabilities or being 'un-teachable'. Black children were labelled 'thick and unintelligent' because they 'couldn't speak the Queen's English', and were prevented from pu...
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