Dear Mr Dastagir,
I am writing to address the problems in the school, more specifically racist banter. I am incredibly upset about this issue and it must be dealt with in the quickest way possible.
Many people have been judged by people of another race and banter is used to make fun of their tradition or culture. Many people also use this term as an excuse for them to use hurtful comments and to just shift blame. I think they are trying to get out of trouble so no consequences are put in place.
In addition, just saying “sorry” is both going to make it better and help your relationship strengthen. Saying “banter” wont make it any better, but may escalate the situation by causing fights. Taking responsibility is better than starting a quarrel, making the victim feel miserable or starting a fight. Doing these things makes the victim feel better and they won’t have a bad opinion on you, they won’t spread nasty rumours about you being a bully or how you dont care about peoples feelings.
A lot of people are judged on what someone thinks of their skin colour. These things are stressful to the victim, lowers the victims self a stem and this can result in depression, bullying and anxiety; which isn’t good for a person as it could potentially make them feel lonely or to hate school due to desolation and if its really bad then they could commit suicide in some cases.
Banter is not something people should enjoy doing, because it is despicable and it starts a lot fights and destroys people’s relationship with each other. This offence shouldn’t go unpunished, when it is heard in school it should be come one of the consequences of 1 – 4, so people know it is incredibly wrong to judge someone just by looking at their skin and what they look like. For instance, if you heard someone’s voice or are looking at someone and they looked/sounded Australian, then someone could say “use boomerangs a lot?” (racism) even if he was British they use this to their advantage and say its was just banter.
“Banter” to me personally is both sinister and a serious matter in London Nautical School because many times as I am walking in the hallways to get to lessons I hear people mocking black,Mexican and Asian people more often than I hear them mocking white people. A lot of these issues occur due to insecurity or jealousy or just straight up hating the person. Insecurity because they may have been bullied and when they come to secondary school with a fresh start they want to show people they are very strong and they shouldn’t be messed with but that usually makes it worse as nobody will really like them.
Jealousy because the victim may have got stuff that the culprit wish they had and will start insulting the victim because they feel envious and to make the victim feel like the culprit has a “better life” than them to show they have a lot of money or to show that their parents love them more is often the case but usually its a contest to see who has the best equipment , games , consoles and who has the most money between them, this also starts fights and rivalry as they feel llike they must prove something.
Banter is not something that should be used as entertainment as it is a serious problem there are serious limits to what you can say.
People say its just banter because they want to gain respect from everyone else or be feared and instead they are hated by students and teachers.
I hope you do your best to tackle all these issues around the school, Yours Sincerely Marcel
March 22, 2015 at 9:36 pm
Marcel,
This is a clear start that sets out the issue you feel strongly about.
Targets:
1) Where is your plan? How will you develop your ideas next?
2) Aim to achieve the Perfect Paragraph badge
http://achieve.community.edutronic.net/stage-one-writing/perfect-paragraph/
April 15, 2015 at 11:36 pm
Hello Marcel,
You have finished writing the content of your letter, but to achieve the Transactional Writing badge, you must re-read and edit sentence structures and spelling.
Targets
1) Try to use some complex sentences to help improve your flow – use commas to separate your clauses
2) Aim to re-draft at least one paragraph in order to achieve the Perfect Paragraph badge
http://achieve.community.edutronic.net/stage-one-writing/perfect-paragraph/
How will you meet this criteria?
May 10, 2015 at 11:11 pm
Hello Marcel,
I can see that you have been working on this and you are nearly there – please try to use commas to separate the different clauses in your sentences.
Try to use only one conjunction (and, but, also because) per sentence.
I will talk to you about this in person tomorrow.
Thanks,
Mr North
May 12, 2015 at 7:36 am
Targets
1) practise/secure the use of commas to separate clauses in a sentence (look at your first sentence for an example of where this needs to happen)
2) look at your second paragraph ‘…the other race’ – what might be a better way of phrasing this?
3) look at the beginning of paragraphs 5 & 6 – how might you make yourself clearer? More engaging?
June 4, 2015 at 8:21 am
Look at your third paragraph – where have you been repetitive and how might you solve this?