A Rise In Homophobia, Racism and Ableism In Schools

追加: 2026-06-04

[00:00:01]Shocking rise in school suspensions for racist, abbleist, and homophobic abuse.

[00:00:10]We're back in the old days, boys. That's what things were like when I was at school. Builds character to be Let's Let's actually have a look at the article. Uh, a rise in school suspensions over racist, homophobic, and disableist abuse is linked to an erosion in anti-bullying support and wider societal issues. Education specialists say between 2020 to 2021 and 2024 to 25, there were more than 55,000 suspensions linked to racist abuse at English schools. Well, what was happening at the time?

[00:00:48]Did something happen? Were they doing something?

[00:00:52]Right. Pardon? I'm just asking questions. Department of for education data documenting reasons for suspensions also shows schools logged homophobic or transphobic abuse more than 13,000 times and disableist abuse about 1,600 times in the same period. Now, that's the one that that's the one that I do kind of understand right now. Homophobic, transphobic, racist, blah blah blah blah blah. right? Whatever. That's all under that's all totally fine. Disabled, you know, you should be completely free to say it. But if someone's disabled, they can't really do anything about that. And it's like they're not exactly there by choice and everything like and it's like that's the thing is like the overwhelming in fact pretty much every single disabled person that I've ever met has been really lovely apart from one woman which I I don't know I'm not putting this down to her being an [ __ ] A part of me kind of thinks it was maybe just a pride thing but basically I was walking through cop bridge once. It was a woman in a wheelchair. She was stuck in a curb. She couldn't get up the curb and I saw her I was walking behind her for ages and I could see her going back and then going forward in her wheelchair and trying to mount the curb and uh I just I saw her she was struggling. I was walking for ages and she was struggling the entire time and then when I reached her I went do we hand up the curb darling and she went [ __ ] off.

[00:02:15]I was just all right. just like, "Okay, then." And kept I kept walking, left her behind.

[00:02:22]And even it was a long street. And when I was at the other end of the street, I looked all the way back and there she was still at the curb. And I was just kind of like, "Okay." Like, but a part of me was kind of like, "Okay, that was really [ __ ] rude. I was just trying to [ __ ] help you out." But then the other part where it's like the pride thing of maybe she was like, "I'm going to do this. I'm going to do this on my own." I get that.

[00:02:45]I do get that. So, I'm half mad and like half understanding, but that's that's the only disabled person I've met that was rude or like an [ __ ] Every other disabled person I've met has been lovely, right? I go to a lot of the autism groups and stuff like that and everybody's [ __ ] lovely. And of Right. So, see how like, you know, all the other stuff. Yeah, absolutely. Roast everybody and everything, but like the disabled stuff, come on. There's literally jack [ __ ] that they can do about that. Uh, a mother who believes bullying contributed to the suicide of her autistic son said the data was horrifying but not surprising. Amid calls for a national anti-bullying strategy, the Department for Education described the figures as shocking and said it was providing expert support.

[00:03:26]Warning, the story contains details some may find distressing. Government data show documenting reasons for suspensions shows a 68% rise in mentions of pre prejuditial abuse in fewer than four years. Because schools can record up to three reasons for each suspension, these figures do not represent individual incidents but show how often different forms of abuse are cited. Kirsten Kut's son Sam Kutz was 18 when he killed himself in the toilets at Darlington's Queen Elizabeth Six Form College earlier this year. Now, that is absolutely tragic. I'm definitely not going to defend that at all. However, there is a lot of cases of see if someone just says something meany or whatever, then that's whatever. However, constant habitual a bullying and abuse over a long enough period of time, the schools don't do much about that. And that's when it starts to become a problem. And one thing as well, by the way, and I will I will do the exact same for my kids. If this happens, and I I I'll say this for any other kid out there who's been bullied. If a kid has been like bullied over and over and over every single day, the mom and dad's went down to the school. The teachers have been spoken to and all of that stuff. They've went through every single proper avenue.

[00:04:34]They've went through every single proper avenue and nothing's been done about the Oh, they get suspended for two days, came back, started the bullying, waited for them outside the school, blah blah blah. And then one day that kid just [ __ ] snaps, caves the bully's [ __ ] head and smashes them the [ __ ] up. And then the school are like, "Oh, we're going to nah [ __ ] you. No, [ __ ] you."

[00:04:51]every single bit. Basically, every proper avenue was explored. Every proper avenue was explored. The mom and dad and the bullying victim did everything by the letter and you did nothing.

[00:05:02]Therefore, the bully went back to the last resort. Basically, if you want someone to stop [ __ ] with you, hit them.

[00:05:08]Hit them. And that's what happens in that case and basically make it clear to the person. Even though you're bigger than me and overnight and I'm probably going to lose the fight, I'll gouge your eyes. I'll bite your nose. I will fight dirty as [ __ ] And I'm going to do it to you every single time you say something to me. That's how you get them to leave you alone.

[00:05:23]That's the surefire way to [ __ ] do it. That's all right. You can say that [ __ ] to me. I'm going to be your worst [ __ ] nightmare. I'll wait for you outside your [ __ ] house when you've not got your pals with you. I'll shout your address out in school. Basically, basically see you get rid of a bully, turn into a psycho. Right. That's that'll make any of them go, "What the fuck?" Yeah. Strip naked, jump on him, start beating him up while naked. Right.

[00:05:48]Basically, no man wants that. No man, you want to scare someone, right? See, if you're not physical, you need to start getting psychological, right?

[00:05:56]Cool. But if I win this fight, I'm going to butt [ __ ] you. What? That's how you get rid of a bully.

[00:06:04]That's right. But but basically, right, see when bullying victims [ __ ] snap and then they get suspended. [ __ ] that [ __ ] [ __ ] that [ __ ] Right. Everybody's got a right to defend themsel. And if someone's been giving it that a little bit too [ __ ] much after a lot of warning, [ __ ] around and find out. Sorry. H he was not bullied there, but she said his state of mind had been shaped irrevocably by disabilist abuse he suffered as a school boy. The guy was cast. It pushed him into a headsp space where he didn't feel the same as anybody else. She said, "Oh, who cares? I'm not not poo pooing the boy's feelings or anything like that. Like, I understand why, but like but who who cares?

[00:06:44]I'm not like everybody else. Everybody else is gay and cringe. Like what are you talking about? Like I don't want to be where I want to be like everybody else, my guy. Have you seen everybody else? Like you want to be like the people who were bullying you? They're gimps. Like why do you want to be like them? Bro, be autistic. Being autistic is [ __ ] fun, right? I see autistic children all the time. My daughter's autistic. They're having a whale of a [ __ ] time.

[00:07:14]They're having a great time while sitting there playing Pokémon. Oh, how how awful. I want to be like everybody.

[00:07:20]No, you don't. No, you don't. Shut the [ __ ] up. Shut the [ __ ] up. You're you.

[00:07:24]That's better than everybody else.

[00:07:27]Right. Everybody else, you you've seen what they do. They're just bullying you and being [ __ ] [ __ ] right?

[00:07:31]What's their That's their contribution to everything that's going on. What's What's yours? Sitting there vibing, playing with a stylus, drawing things, like playing card games, enjoying all your little hobbies and stuff like that.

[00:07:43]That's vibing. That's vibing. That's fun. You have fun with that, don't you?

[00:07:47]Cool. Why' you want to be like them? You don't want to be like them. They're [ __ ] gimps, right? Never worry about that [ __ ] I want to be a normie. No, you [ __ ] don't. Shut up. H. A few days before his death, Sam, described by his mother as amazing, enigmatic, funny, opened up about being bullied. She said the effect of the bullying made Sam feel like he wasn't welcome in society and had to find that's that's not that much of a bad thing. Have you have you seen societies?

[00:08:18]But anyway, and had to find a way of curing his autism one way or another. He asked how I'd feel if somebody said, "Everything about you is wrong. Nothing about you is right." Kirsten said. Now again, when I say all this stuff, I'm not poo pooing Sam's feelings, right?

[00:08:32]Bullying, especially when it pushes you to the point of suicide, is a very, very serious issue that definitely should be prevented, right? But basically, but people should be feeling a lot more comfortable on their own skin, right? If you're autistic, who [ __ ] gives a [ __ ] mate. You're better company.

[00:08:45]You're for a fact better company than normies, right? I've had I've had See, this is this is the thing that's really [ __ ] weird. See, whenever I'm at the events, see other autism parents. I don't I don't talk to them because I'm actually socially awkward around people who are not autistic. Like I don't like it. But see see whenever I was like I'm like I'll like start I'll mention Warhammer and that's when I'll see like two of the kids like like and they'll come over to me and I will sit and talk to those [ __ ] for [ __ ] hours, man. Nerding the [ __ ] out about Warhammer. I don't want to talk to the parents. I don't give a [ __ ] about them.

[00:09:22]Right. I'm sorry if like I don't belong in society. Shut up. Right. I'm not again not pooping his feelings, right?

[00:09:28]But if you're autistic, you're better company. You're better company. You can nerd out. You can act socially weird around everyone. Like, you can have everyone rolling their eyes, but you are just sitting there vibing and having a great time. Like, I don't give a [ __ ] about that. Normies are [ __ ] boring.

[00:09:45]I'm just This isn't even virtue. I'm being deadly serious. This isn't me being in character. People with autism, for a fact, make better company than autists.

[00:09:56]They they just for a fact do don't believe me. Come into my Discord. Don't don't don't don't do that. Like, yeah, okay. Things are wild. Things are fun in there, but it's also really [ __ ] toxic place. Uh, he asked how I'd feel.

[00:10:11]I've just read that. It's hard to articulate how many how any of this feels. There aren't any words. Everyone is broken. I'm his mom and it goes against nature's plan. That's absolutely true. H I bet again losing a child.

[00:10:24]Wouldn't wish that my worst enemy.

[00:10:25]terrible. Probably I would argue that that's the most awful [ __ ] thing that can happen to a person. Losing your child would would never wish that on anyone. Custom wants schools and parents to work together to tackle bullying and to control access to phones and social media for children. There it is. Right, Kirsten? I I understand that you're going through something terrible right now and I I get that. However, it that isn't the government's job. That's not the government's job. I understand. In fact, no, I'm going let I'm going to let her have that one. She's very harsh.

[00:10:55]She's very wounded. I'm not I'm not judging her words. I'm not judging her words. Uh something has to change. There should be more support for teachers and parents should have to do more to stop their children behaving like this. It starts at home. Yes, it absolutely does.

[00:11:09]Yeah, you're absolutely right. It does start at home. One thing is basically I don't see my daughters being well, I think everybody says that. I don't see them being bullies. However, if I do catch them doing that, it isn't going to be a little, oh, you naughty thing.

[00:11:21]There will be the sternest of [ __ ] talking to and I'm going to say to the school, if she does this again, you notify me immediately. And I'm going to say, I'm going to make sure you get snatched on every single time, you will shut that behavior right the [ __ ] down.

[00:11:35]Right. Basically, yeah, your parents have to be more proactive in making sure their kids aren't being bullies. Right.

[00:11:40]And then I'm going to do the really awkward thing where see the kids are bullying. They're coming over to the house for a [ __ ] play date and you're going to hang out with them and you're going to go to the cinema. I'm going to bring you little snacks in your [ __ ] room and you're going to be [ __ ] friends. That's what's going to [ __ ] happen, right? That is I will do that.

[00:11:56]I'm being serious. Basically, I'll admit when my kids go to school and they act like a little bit of a [ __ ] Depends what they do. But see, if they're doing stuff like bullying, I'm I'm going to come down [ __ ] hard on that. But anyway, education specialists told the BBC funding cuts to outreach services, social media harms, divisive politics, and a lack of mandatory teaching training were among issues contributing to a growing problem. Less tolerance of discrimination, heightened awareness, and a growth in the use of suspensions overall were also highlighted by charities, unions, and teachers. H uh Pepe Delasio, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said schools only use exclusions as a last resort, but would not tolerate discriminatory behavior. I don't know if that's the case now. I [ __ ] I get I get suspended. I get suspended a lot. Some Some of it was like for [ __ ] [ __ ] reasons. One of one of the things, right, this was the worst one. This was this wasn't a suspension. It it resulted it resulted it nearly resulted in a suspension because I refused to do the punishment exercise.

[00:13:01]Mr. Penny Cookook third year thirdyear physics I think it was thirdyear physics. Mr. Penny loads of people that went to Cobra High like oh holy [ __ ] He gave me a punishment exercise for farting. I tried to make it quiet. I tried to I went lean to the side a little bit. Parted the cheeks. Parted the cheeks. So it just tries to you know you try and try and be quiet. A little slow release on that pressure valve, but nah man. Absolute [ __ ] brathog.

[00:13:27][ __ ] thundered across the room, man.

[00:13:29][ __ ] activating recctor scales all over the world. H. And I got a punishment exercise and I was a little bit unfair for a bodily function that I tried to make quiet and I refused to do the punishment exercise. I ended up getting a talking to from Mr. Drummond.

[00:13:45]Again, everyone in Cotbridge High, oh my god. But yeah, that was some [ __ ] I also got suspended for having a laser pen. Not for shining it anywhere, but for just having it on me. That was Mr. Jack that got me suspended for that.

[00:14:00]Yeah, I got suspended quite a few times.

[00:14:02]But anyway, yeah, [ __ ] So, I don't know if they're using it as a last resort now, but it was the immediate go-to [ __ ] back in M. Uh, it feels as though we're living in an increasingly abrasive era. teaching union nu has received frequent reports of teachers and pupils receiving prejuditial abuse. General Secretary Matt Rack said rack warned against demonizing young people as he said issues in wider society are inevitably reflected in schools. The union has raised concerns with the DFE over the need to improve the recording and monitoring of bullying. Despite recommendations from Britain's Equality Regulator, the Equality and Human Rights Commission, it is not mandatory in England for schools to record incidents of bullying. I think they should start that is something that they do need to look into. Now, I know every bullying builds character and it's like I Okay, a little bit of ribbon for your pals like that. That's absolutely fine. But see, when it is constant, frequent every single day, all day, every day, it's affecting the person's studies, which is going to affect them later on in life and everything. And that's when you definitely have to go in there. Right now, one thing you do need to watch out for though is the per the kid that's walking around being a little [ __ ] to everyone. And then when people react to them being a little [ __ ] that's when they're like, I'm being bullied. And it's like, no, you're being held socially accountable for being a [ __ ] [ __ ] That's that's what's happening, which is I have to say what a lot of the LGBTQ [ __ ] students do where they go around acting like a [ __ ] [ __ ] and then when people go like, "Fuck off, you asshole." Everyone's like, "Ah, I'm being bullied. I'm being bullied. I'm going to snitch on you right away. Did you say something mean to the gay student? Don't you know they're allowed to do whatever the hell they want all the [ __ ] time?" That's when that becomes a problem as well, right? So basically, you have to make sure that the person being bullied also didn't do a bunch do and say a bunch of [ __ ] to actually deserve what they were getting.

[00:15:55]And basically the treatment they got was retaliatory, right? Because that's another thing that I witnessed in school. There was [ __ ] I'm not going to say his name, but he went around being a little [ __ ] to everyone. And then when people were being [ __ ] [ __ ] back to him and going, "No, get [ __ ] no hanging about us." He would go and go, "They said this and that to me and made [ __ ] up to get people into trouble." He was a [ __ ] weapon, that kid. H But anyway, as such, robust is lacking. But the department for education statistics show how many times pupils have been suspended for abusing others. Martha Bloating, director of the anti-bullying alliance said cuts to government funding and local authority contracts for outreach work had contributed to a real reduction in school's ability to undertake anti-bullying training. I mean, everybody knows what bullying is.

[00:16:40]Especially if you're a teacher, you've seen it possibly every single day. If you're a teacher and you spot it, stop it. That that's it. You don't need training for that. You mean you kind of got that training as a teacher, right?

[00:16:52]You've got disciplinary procedures at the schools. Use them. That's it.

[00:16:57]Teachers basically teachers don't know discipline. If you don't know discipline, then you have no business being a teacher, right? You stop bad behavior at school, right? I started school. [ __ ] when was it? When was it they stopped hitting kids?

[00:17:12]I think it was I don't know. I don't know. But I think I'm trying to remember when I started school. They'd only not very long they'd stopped hitting kids.

[00:17:19]They stopped giving them the belt or the ruler. It was usually the belt. Uh but yeah, basically don't do that. Don't do that anymore. But still, basically teachers know bad behavior. Stop the bad behavior. That's what you do as a teacher. I had teachers back in the day who [ __ ] skipped and bound to work to [ __ ] yell at children, right? They [ __ ] loved that [ __ ] Mrs. Kia, she was a [ __ ] [ __ ] But anyway, h she said the ABA once reached tens of thousands of teachers a year with its resources, but now reaches a fraction of that after introducing charging to meet costs. BBC analysis of charity commission data for 15 organizations linked to school outreach work found 12 had faced cuts in central government grants and contracts since 2019, including show racism the red card, which delivers anti-racism workshops in schools. None of this is necessary because teachers should just know how to [ __ ] do that. They've been to school.

[00:18:19]They now teach in the school. They should know like like no teacher's watching someone like two kids like beating up one kid in the hallway and thinking to themsel, h what should I do? What should I do in this scenario? Like basically if you're asking yourselves that you've no business being a teacher. Quit immediately. Right? You don't need a training seminar or a workshop for that [ __ ] Stop being stupid. Uh James Kanget from SRTRC said the charity had also lost a significant number of local authority contracts after austerity measures saw many councils repurpose funding. Damn. I guess all the teachers in those jobs just forgot the training.

[00:19:01]I guess they just forgot and they think bullying's fine now. Uh he added that education rather than punitive punishment is the solution to displaying discriminatory behavior where it comes from a lack of understanding and without intention to offend. Uh Dr. Greg Stride from the local government information unit said central government cuts meant councils had less resources for valuable but non-stutory work like outreach or prevention programs. He added council's hands are tied. No, they're not.

[00:19:28]Councils have an inordinate amount of [ __ ] power.

[00:19:32]LGBTQ plus charity just like us relies on donations to run its ambassador program which sees young people return to school to share their experiences.

[00:19:42]Ambassador Cameron Wright, 21 said the work is vital in raising awareness and highlighting the impact of homophobia. I can go in and say I know what it's like.

[00:19:51]I had a difficult experience, but my life's amazing now. Wright, who uses they them pronouns, was left suicidal after being targeted with slurs and threats throughout school. They said the experience had a lasting impact, adding, "School was consistently difficult and it was difficult because I was gay."

[00:20:11]There were gay people at my school and weirdly they didn't get any [ __ ] I can actually specifically remember that. I'm not going to say their names.

[00:20:21]One came out years later and everyone was like, "Oh, did you hear blah blah blah came out?" And I was like not surprised at all. We all knew. The school knew. Everybody [ __ ] knew. But like weirdly, nobody nobody gets shipped. At least that I know of. And I hung out with one of them. Like, and it was I don't know. It was weird. Like nobody nobody ever gave them any [ __ ] for it. That was a weird one.

[00:20:44]Unexpected. But anyway, it was mostly some Catholic Protestant stuff that was happening. Teachers couldn't get a handle on what was happening. And school went from a safe place to a place I felt really excluded from. Gypsy leader Billy Welch said his school visits have made a huge difference in tackling racism in Darlington as he urged the government and education authorities to support school outreach work. Recalling a very offensive history of prejudice leveled at his community. He said up and down the country it's terrible, but in Darlington now they make a space for the gypsy children. Well, that's nice.

[00:21:19]Usually they just take it. Uh, I go I go into schools and talk about where we came from, our culture, our beliefs and traditions. It does so much good.

[00:21:31]Then at the end of it, everyone's like, "Hey, where's my phone?"

[00:21:36]Sorry. No, I'm not. H the children love it, but the ones who get the most out of it are the teachers who go back with a different understanding and different approach. Shut up. I'm I'm sensing what all of this is, right? But I'm going to save it for the end. A Department for Education spokesman called its data shocking and said discrimination had no place in schools, adding every child deserves to learn in a safe and calm classroom. He said the government is providing support for schools with the biggest behavior challenges and that free breakfast clubs improve teacher training and clearer guidance around suspensions would help tackle poor behavior and ensure teachers have clarity and confidence to act swiftly when needed. The DF's prevention and tackling bullying guidance says schools are required to have bullying prevention policies in place. Now see all the anti-bullying stuff. Teachers already know that through their own lived experience of being in school also from their training of being a teacher.

[00:22:32]That's the stuff that you learn while you're learning to be a teacher. And also during the onboarding process when they first start working in that school.

[00:22:42]So they didn't forget all of that. And none of these seminars or [ __ ] speakers or any of that [ __ ] is required in any way whatsoever. This is more people basically trying to get a hold of taxpayers money. This is people going, "Oh, the problem is so much [ __ ] worse than you actually believe. Oh, give us money and we'll come into the school and tell the teachers things they already know."

[00:23:03]That's that's it. Teachers didn't forget that [ __ ] There are policies in place.

[00:23:07]The teachers know what to do. The teachers just have to act on it. In fact, the fact that you have all the data shows that it is being reported. It is being reported and the teachers are acting and it's going through the school's disciplinary procedures. That's how you have the data because it is being reported and it is being dealt with, right? However, there are some cases where it is not being dealt with, right? And that's on the teachers because they know sending them to another seminar isn't going to make them like they already know the information.

[00:23:35]You're just telling them it again. It doesn't help. They already have the information. and they're already not acting on it. Like the basic the problem isn't the information, they have it. The problem is them not acting on it. At which point the teacher themselves should be put through a disciplinary because they're not doing their job correctly. Right? Now, basically in regards to the oh it builds character and everything like to an extent, right? Not not the gruesome absolutely horrible [ __ ] like Carrie or anything although that was a bit cartoonish. I've never heard of people doing that. Although I know kids can be shits. Kids can be absolute little shits. Right. In regards to this, right, see if you are being bullied at school or you're being treated differently and anything like that, bear in mind that the people doing this to you are normies.

[00:24:18]Literally the most boring, vacuous, ignorant, stupid people that don't understand the world in any way whatsoever. Mostly low IQ. Right. So, so basically if if you're autistic, you're better than them cuz you because basically you see you see the world through a lens that most the pretty much all normies can't experience the world through. That's why that's why autistic people excel in so many different areas.

[00:24:44]That's why, you know, you make sure to hire autistic researchers because they're [ __ ] great at their job and they make better company.

[00:24:55]They're so much better to hang out with, right? Basically, you're more fun than a normie. If normies are sitting there going, "Oh, you're different. You're that, you're this, you're that." They're just doing it because they're [ __ ] boring and you're actually fun to be around and they hate you for it.