The Daily Telegraph reported that, when the chanting happened, teachers responded by herding 20 of the children into a classroom for their own safety. According to families in the area, the incident is the latest in a catalogue of harassment, which has been "brushed under the carpet" by the school.
A spokesman for the independent anti-racism charity the Monitoring Group told the press that until an action plan is in place the six families of the children "just do not feel safe to return to the school". He added: "We deal with hundreds of incidents of racially-aggravated violence, but the kind of gravity of the incident at the school is without precedent."
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