Station:
Channel 4 (GB)
Status:
To Be Determined
Start:
2020-06-25
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Documentary series that follows a British school helping its students uncover and eradicate hidden racial biases, exploring how this can affect us all and what we can do to tackle it.
There is no Next Episode of The School That Tried to End Racism planned.
S1E1 - Episode 1
Documentary about a pioneering British school helping 11 and 12-year-old pupils uncover and eradicate hidden racial biases by giving them a series of activities designed to challenge everything they thought they knew about race. To begin with the students are split into different work groups according to their skin colour. A white British student and his black Caribbean best friend are shocked to discover the level of unconscious bias they carry, while a 12-year-old bi-racial girl is keen to find out what group she belongs in - white or black?
Air Date: 25 Jun 2020 15:00 (CDT)
S1E2 - Episode 2
Second of the two-part documentary about a pioneering British school giving 11 and 12-year-old pupils a series of activities designed to uncover and eradicate hidden racial biases. The students explore the notion of white privilege. A 12-year-old white British student is shocked to hear her black classmates' experiences of racism, while an 11-year-old girl is keen to create an Asian and bi-racial work group. At the end of the course, the pupils are tested again for racial bias, to see if anything has changed.
Air Date: 25 Jun 2020 15:00 (CDT)