| Description | Tracks 1 - 11: Actuality with a number of adults originally from the West Indies, and Charles Parker. Continuation of discussion from preceding reel. Mrs Batchelor talks about her worry for her children, with reference to potential police harassment and unfair treatment. John Clarke enters the discussion from track 2, speaking about his experiences of coming to England at the age of 18 and being called for military service in the 1950s. Other adults in the room enter and leave the discussion from track 2 onwards, they introduce themselves and give details about their families' circumstances, and about their experiences on arriving in Britain. The discussion mainly concerns the standard of the education system in Britain in comparison with the West Indian system. The general opinion of the group is that the education system for both white and black children is better in the West Indies. One of the group talks about how he had to send his British-born children to Jamaica for their schooling in 1965. This was partly because he felt that they were being held back deliberately because of their skin colour at their school in Birmingham; he also relates a story about his friend's son who was segregated from the white pupils at his school. Mr Lawrence describes a committe that he sat on to represent the interests of children from various minority ethnic communities in the British education system.
Total: 32.29 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0877780 |