Nardene talks about her early experiences of racism in the school setting (1:53)

When I was in primary school, I had like a really bad experience, like with that I had one teacher where she would sit all of the Aboriginal kids up at the back of the classroom, like around a table and she would have all the like white, smart students down the front.  And like she would just give us like any work and that would be it.  She would just photocopy some sheets and give it to us, but where the smarter, like white kids, would like get like their spelling and assistance in, like, helping them to spell it and stuff like that. But we were like chucked up in the back of the classroom.

And like me, like, I got, like, angry, like, one time and I left the classroom and ran home to my mum.  And, like, my mum came down and she got like really angry with the teacher and yeah, because she thought that yeah we were like, ostracised, yeah.  And I felt that too. But that’s why I think that you know sometimes Indigenous kids come out with poor learning because they’re like set to one side compared to kids of other nationalities and I think if when they’re in school, if they can like provide them with like assistance like having tutors with them in the school from a young age, not just when they got to high school but as soon as they start Transition and then slowly yeah work them through the school system, then that will make their learning better.