Luke Fagan:

Senator O'Sullivan said he had been a teacher and was shocked to hear of racism among teachers and in schools. As mentioned in the opening statement, microaggressions still are racism. This could be seen in comments about hair or food. Some teachers are not well educated on this. Although some teachers may not intend to be racist, they can be when they use microaggressions or when they do not let a certain student do this or that. Perhaps it is not their intention and while I cannot speak for all teachers, sometimes I do not think teachers ultimately do mean to be racist or use microaggressions. They have to get more education on racism, which could go with a change in the curriculum. One of the recommendations by the young people we surveyed was to provide more teacher training and it could fix this issue.