New teachers ‘face challenge’
By
MARITA VANDENBERG
The Race Relations Conciliator, Mr Chris Laidlaw
(above), addresses the Christchurch College of Education graduation ceremony in .the Town Hall yesterday. Many schools were confronting issues of racism almost daily, he said.
Mr Laidlaw said the incoming teachers faced the chai-
lenge of shaping the attitudes of a new generation. It was now up to them to decide where they stood. “Radical stereotyping is so easy to accept and so difficult to dislodge from the mind,” he said.
Mr Laidlaw said he was encouraged by the work
being done in many* schools to create an environment in which racism did not get the chance to take root
Teachers deserved much of the praise for this. Nearly 400 students graduated from the college’s early childhood, primary, secondary, and special teaching programmes yesterday.
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