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Subject Trainee teachers 'see black children as more angry' than white youngsters and suffer from 'racialized anger bias'

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Original Message Trainee teachers are more likely to see black children as being 'more angry' than white youngsters, regardless of their actual emotional state, a study has concluded.

The findings indicate that the impacts of what the team had previously termed 'racialized anger bias' are not confined to black adults. Racialized anger bias means that people are seeing anger where none exists,' said psychologist Amy Halberstadt.

'We saw this happening to black adults in earlier research. Now this finding highlights the urgent need to address conscious and unconscious bias in educators. We already know that black students experience many more suspensions, expulsions and disciplinary actions than white students ...

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So that chair that Lakeesha's just lobbed at the teacher is just unconscious bias - from an unconscious teacher.

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