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STATEMENT ON RACISM IN SCHOOLS AND THE EDUCATION SYSTEM

Our core values at Phoenix are: Equality, Autonomy, Collaboration, Agency, and Authenticity. They are also the values that we would like to see underpin the education system as a whole. Through Freedom To Learn, our commitment is to work together for greater freedom and social justice in education. Interpersonal and systemic racism within schools and the education system creates intolerable barriers and harm to young BAME people. We know racist biases in the curriculum, in policies, in pedagogy, and in practice, result in unjust and misguided social norms and values. We believe that white, patriarchal, supremacist culture, reinforced and exacerbated by organisational and policy hierarchies in school, combined with an absence of robust structures and culture for normalising student autonomy, agency and voice, undermines the UNCRC and perpetuates racism and inequality. We know as an organisation that we have our own work to do make sure we are working in as anti-racist a way as possible, and are committed to learning and doing more and better. We stand together in solidarity and support with students, teachers, and education activists who are doing anti-racist work and making changes to their schools and the education system.

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