[Ninastar]

I want mature responses only please. No name calling/baiting/picking on posts etc.

I know this is a sensitive issue for some, but please look at this subject with an open mind.

I've been working at a school full of Muslim children for the past week and it's been... eventful. I've had some really nice moments and I've had some truly awful moments. Most of the kids have literally no respect, but I don't think that's anything to do with the fact that they are Muslim. It's more so to do with the fact that it's such a rough and scary area.

Anyway, more to what the thread is about.

It was my first day at the school last week (I'm in a year 4 class) and most of the kids were all happy to meet me and it was really sweet. However, I asked one of the boys to stop 'roughhousing' with another boy much smaller than him cause the smaller boy was clearly distressed and he got really annoyed with me. He said 'Miss, do you have a dog?' and I was like... 'No, why?' and he was like, 'Cause I'm going to get my dog on you.' and I was just like so shocked that a kid would say that. I was still in shock so I said 'Why would you do that?' and then he mumbled something that I didn't hear. His friends around him gasped and I was like 'What did he say?' and one of the girls was like 'Miss, he said it's because you're white.'

I literally didn't know what to say. I've never left a child without telling them off for doing something bad but this time, I just walked away. It bothered me a little but then I realised that it might have just been to make me leave or whatever. Anyway, I asked the teacher about it later and she said that this boy makes a lot of comments like that and that his family are pretty racist. She says his parents pretty much don't care how he acts up in school.

It annoyed me because there would be such outrage if it was the other way around. I don't like hatred of any kind, so the comment has really annoyed me and I've been debating about posting this thread since it happened. But I've heard the opinions of a lot of the teachers at the school and it's given me the confidence to post it on here.

Do you think that people of any colour can be racist? Or would you class this as something else entirely? I just wanted to see some opinions on here.