Is school racism really a 'myth'?
Updated on 29 October 2009
As a think tank dismisses school racism as a "myth", More4 News reveals over 3,000 pupils have been victim to violent racist attack in the past five years.
Tens of thousands of incidents of racist bullying are being reported in schools every year, a More4 News survey of education authorities has found.
Evidence of a deep-seated problem or, as one think-tank has claimed, oversensitivity and box-ticking by school authorities?
Well, it is not all name-calling - more than 3,000 of the cases reported involved violence.
Nina Teggarty spoke to one victim of such violent racism, who asked us not to give her full name.
