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Appendix D: List of Racist Incident Definitions
Definitions of Racist Incidents Given by EAs/Schools
"Anything which a parent or pupil perceives as being racist"
"Anything deemed offensive to an individual ( e.g. graffiti, name-calling, clothing, reading materials)"
"Name-calling because of religion; excluding people because of skin colour; not liking someone because of skin colour"
"If someone made a comment or did something degrading to hurt someone, but there can be unintentional racism too, and when a person's background is used as a reason or weapon to hurt them"
"If a pupil calls names, what could seem to be teasing"
" targeting another child and behaving inappropriately towards them as a result of their race, colour, religion, sexual persuasion"
"It comes down to individual interpretation, even among my friends I'd say I hear things sometimes which make me think humm, you don't always tackle it though"
"It might be some sort of bullying and it might not be obvious that it's racist"
"To me it's only a racist incident if there's malice intended rather than just stupidity"
"Attach verbal or physical or on someone s group, its questioning someone's intelligence if you think they can't identify something racist"
"When someone is victimised in some way because of their race"
"Any anti feeling, name calling, pushing, shoving in fact abuse of any kind, it can even be moving school bags can't it"
"It could be physical or a remark about someone on the basis of their colour, origins, ethinicity, speak y'know where they come from. It could be more physical though couldn't it - noises, grafitti, showing pictures which are offensive"
"Something which is detrimental to someone else on the basis of their skin colour"
"Derogatory comments and name-calling"
"Well you need to ask yourself do you suspect it's racist or do you know?"
"Name calling or offensive writing"
"If a child's race or ethnicity is being used against them in an insult or a comment"
"Anything mentioned… against race using derogatory terms...any exclusion"
"Saying things like Paki, calling coloured children blackie things like that"
"Verbal abuse, name calling, graffiti, badges, pushing or shoving. Anything directed at a child because of their race"
"Derogatory remarks toward someone of a different colour"
"Anything that upsets anyone in terms of equality"
"Certainly name calling, I'd put it under the umbrella of all things to do with equality"
"An incident either provoked by some racist comment or insult perceived by someone as racist. Perception is all important"
"Anything aimed at accent or dress or appearance, not necessarily physical, but colour, that caused offence, made someone feel excluded"
"Any verbal comment that demeans an individual because of their background, colour or beliefs"
"Verbal abuse could be interpreted as racist. Comment made in relation to nationality, religion or colour and is considered racist"
"Any incident where a child says or does something to cause offence about another's nationality, appearance, accent etc"
"Focus on offence caused and forget the view that it shouldn't happen in a 'good school"
"Analysis shows pupils do not generally repeat offences"
"Any reference to culture, religion or appearance that could possibly be racist frequently unintentional"
"It's taken from the guidance"
"Generally incidents are unintentional"
"Anything that upsets someone with reference to a person's colour, hair, accent"
"School rule that people don't talk about others full stop; use a given name that's all, make no remarks about appearance"
"Any act or verbal/physical act that is intended to hurt, undermine or ridicule due to ethnic background"
"Anything that affects someone from a different country or with a different colour skin"
"A child that targets another and behaves inappropriately towards them as a result of their race, colour, religion, sexual persuasion"
"Name calling because of colour, picking on someone because of the clothes they wear, excluding someone because they support a particular football team"
"Like bullying but picked out or denigrated because they were different racially"
"Something which happened to another person and the person found it upsetting or intimidating, people don't have to realise it at the time"
"In a school it would be name calling"
"Someone using an abusive term to someone because of colour or religion. For me it would be mostly comments"
"Where a child knowingly made a comment and understood that it was going to hurt that child on the basis of difference to them"
"Well I had a lot of difficulty understanding this, but I'd refer you to the EA guidance form's definition - anything which the victim understands as a racist incident"
"Where a child of a different ethnicity has been upset by someone's comments or actions"
"It could be anything name calling, physical assault, children getting excluded"
"There's a range, the most common obviously is verbal abuse. Some of the RIs which affect us happen outside of school"
"Anything that would offend an individual"
"Name-calling. 'A 1-off incident wouldn't be classified as an RI, or younger children - they're not aware of being racist"
"Any child being offensive in relation to someone's colour, culture, etc"
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