Paige Horsford, 34, a media and English teacher from New Romney, Kent, said she joined the Together march because she has witnessed racist incidents at her school.
She said: “This is my 10th year teaching, and it’s certainly the worst it’s ever been.
“Especially after the Unite the Kingdom rally in September, we had issues in our school surrounding that rally.
“Our kids’ parents had been, and then (pupils) were thinking that they could have free licence to be abusive in classrooms.”
Ms Horsford said pupils had been imitating accents and making “inappropriate” comments.
She said: “The other day, when a teacher who was of foreign descent was giving out warnings, one of the kids went, ‘Oh, is he gonna blow up if we keep on?’
“(There has been) a lot of low-level stuff and when I’m teaching media and we talk about newspapers, kids are saying, ‘it’s all because of the immigrants’, and, no, it isn’t.”
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