ETHNIC DISCRIMINATION AND ITS IMPACT AMONG THE GRADE-10 STUDENTS

OF SAINT TERESITA’S ACADEMY

A Research Report Study

IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS IN ENGLISH 10

STUDENT RESEARCHER:

FRANZCIELLE JAUN V. MANZON

INSTRUCTOR:

MRS. MARITES V. AQUINO

S.Y. 2020 -2021

core of students’ life. The school could create a safer and secure student spaces and organizations

for different ethnic students to foster a sense of belonging and lessen the exert impact of

discrimination in their field. Such approaches would serve as academic engagement to all

students equally.

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ABSTRACT

Education is a tool to change the oppressing system. However, sometimes, education also

caters ethnic discrimination that eventually occurs in a school premise. Schools provide students

a home of learning and can be considered as safe havens for students’ nourishment and

development. But in some cases, many grade 10 students of Saint Teresita’s Academy are

subjected to ethnic discrimination by peers and schoolmates. Furthermore, grade 10 students of

Saint Teresita’s Academy manifested and report perceived ethnic discrimination as predictor of

academic achievements. Ethnic discrimination is linked to negative sides and various impacts to

students’ perception, self-esteem, mental and emotional health, language barriers, and academic

achievement and engagement. Students who are connected to ethnic discrimination are more

likely to develop anxiety and depression that can hinder them to positively function. Having an

anxiety and depression to students’ health is literally bad because it will make them feel nothing

but sadness and loneliness to the point that it will suffocate them. Hence, ethnic discrimination

exacts a heavy toll on the physical, emotional, and social health and well-being of students.

Guided by a risk and resilience framework, this study pays a particular attention to the

implications of the negative effects of ethnic discrimination in terms of students’ persona and

academic outcome. To understand school experience within the context of ethnic discrimination

therefore requires as a starting point, a clear appreciation of the social identities of ethnic groups.

The present study lies in a close consideration of ethnicity as dimensions of social identity which

come into play in the construction of school experiences, and not as a different diversity. The

encounters of the daily basis ethnic discrimination of students potentially serve to negatively

affecting students’ socialization and social integration. Implications of the impacts underlying

ethnic discrimination among grade 10 students of Saint Teresita’s Academy will be discussed.
INTRODUCTION

Schools are considered as the home of development and comfortability. It is a place where

students are being nurtured and given knowledge for the betterment of their well-being.

However, school is also characterized by the maintenance and production of ethnic

discrimination. Despite of its good amends, most of the grade 10 students of Saint Teresita’s

Academy are being bullied, and are experiencing a negative and boastful treatment in terms of

their ethnicity. Experiences with ethnic discrimination are quite common but difficult to cope in

the part of students with different kinds of ethnic groups such as Kalanguya, Igorot, and Ifugao.

Thus, this study show how ethnic discrimination in education are experienced by the grade 10

students of Saint Teresita’s Academy , and how they were greatly affected by the unfair

judgment of the fellow students. This paper contemplates the school experiences of grade 10

students with ethnic discrimination in school affiliated to their academic aftermath, ideas, beliefs,

and behaviors. If peers’ treatment and actions are gruesome and harsh, and if it shows

discrimination like excluding students from social activities because they are different, students

with ethnicity may feel less positive and sensitive towards their academic capabilities, and their

self-confidence would be negatively affected. Hence, this paper sought to ponder the pervasive

negative impacts of ethnic discrimination on students’ development and performance as well as

on their health and well-being. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to promote awareness

and intensive coping mechanisms that correspond to mitigation of possible ethnic

discrimination.

CONCEPTUAL ETHNIC DISCRIMINATION (REVIEW OF LITERATURE)

One group that suffered from the effects of discrimination is ethnic minorities. Ethnicity plays a
role in the development of distinctive outlooks at school as a function of students’ social

structures and relation. Ethnicity is understood as a situated process of social construction

(Fenton, 2003). However, most of the people tend to judge ethnicity because they think that they

are different and low. Many grade 10 students of Saint Teresita’s Academy commonly

experience judgment and unkind treatment on a daily basis because of their ethnic differences.

Thus, experience with ethnic discrimination can increase an individual’s vulnerability to other

negative experiences by exacerbating the stress response initiated by unrelated, yet stressful

experiences (Myers, 2009). Ethnic discrimination manifests a number of small ways that build

up and ultimately impact an individual’s health negatively (Dr. May, 2019). Evidence

demonstrating the effect of ethnic discrimination on mental health has indicated serious

discrepancies in mental health outcomes among ethnic groups, such as depression and a general

difficulty in recovering from emotional trauma. Post-traumatic stress, hallucinations, depression,

and anxiety are only few of the health disorders may arise (Hannah Chea, 2019). Students from

grade 10 Saint Teresita’s Academy who experience discrimination from their peers are likely to

have negative attitude, behavior, and lower academic performance because it can cause their

brain not to be able to plan, think, and respond in spheres, which ultimately disrupts student

learning in an area intended to provide knowledge and an educational opportunity. When

students perceived discrimination in school, it impacts their beliefs, attitude, and performance

towards school (Fenton, 2003). In particular, a study of Benner and Graham (2013) found that

discrimination from peers because of ethnic differences was associated with lower grades and

poorer psychological well-being. According to them, the performance of a student is being

affected as well as his personality, and his behavior changes such as his dealings with other

individual is no good because his self-esteem lessen due to discrimination. Specifically, not all
students respond to discrimination in the way that it will mitigate (Sellers, Caddwell, Schmeelk-

Cone, 2003).Regardless of the extremity, when instances of discrimination occur, the person

experiencing ethnic discrimination is often left distressed and their concentration and focus is

disrupted. In settings like a classroom, students who experience ethnic discrimination on a daily

basis may find it difficult to focus on the task, thus impeding on their activities and interactions

(Hannah Chea). Research found that ethnic discrimination has detrimental impacts towards

students’ engagement, academic success, and well-being.

CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS

The study provides insight and learning into how ethnic discrimination greatly impacts the grade

10 students of Saint Teresita’s Academy. The finding suggests that ethnic discrimination is a

normative experience for students with ethnic minorities, but greatly impact their psychological

health including their mental and emotional health. Also, students might develop poor language

skills, interaction, self-confidence, anxiety and depression that results to low academic

attainment and success. Research has found that a major motivation for ethnic-racial socializing

among ethnic minority parents is to buffer children from negative effects of ethnic/racial

discrimination (Peter, 2002; Suizze et al. 2008). Parents may be able to mitigate and prevent

some of the negative impacts of ethnic discrimination through ethnic-racial socialization

practices, which include discussions aimed at helping students to negotiate a stigmatized identity

(Aprile Benner, 2013). Good parenting should always be done so that the students’ self-esteem

is being enhanced. Learners and educators must receive and give nurturing, monitoring, and

accountability while they take risks to become aware and learn to solve racial stress, disrupts,

and conflict in daily social interactions. Education needs to support student’s development and

execution of culturally relevant practices that will recognize and affirm their identities as crucial