There were proposals to, among other things, hold schools accountable only for the progress of the lowest - performing students in the bottom quintile; not disaggregate data by
race and ethnicity; require states to deal only with the lowest - performing schools; or
ignore test results altogether as an accountability tool.
«By focusing on physical harm, sections 1
and 2 of the proposal
ignore that the most common type of racism in Australia is racist hate speech
and exclusion on the basis of
race,
ethnicity or cultural background [ix].