Campaña “Nos cuesta ver el racismo en la escuela”

For over ten years, Chile has had a law prohibiting discrimination in schools: the School Inclusion Law. Its objective is clear: to eliminate arbitrary practices that close the door to learning and participation for children in the classroom. But more than a decade after its enactment, racism remains a persistent barrier in classrooms. And it disproportionately affects children from Indigenous communities—such as the Mapuche people—Afro-descendant students, and the children of Latin American immigrants. However, experts are emphatic: the law alone is not enough. That's why, this Wednesday, July 8th, the campaign "We Have a Hard Time Seeing Racism in Schools" is being launched—an initiative that seeks to bring to light something we often prefer not to see: how racism seeps, often silently, into the school lives of thousands of children in Chile. We discussed it in #SinPretexto with Luz Valoyes, alternate director of the Millennium Nucleus for Research on Chilean Anti-Racist Education (MRACE), and academic at the Faculty of Education of the Catholic University of Temuco.