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Roma students face lasting repercussions from discrimination

By Edward SanFilippo

Catherine Twigg [Communications Director, The European Roma Rights Centre]: "In a Romani settlement in Slovakia, a boy attending a mainstream school was awarded a small scholarship for being a gifted student. He dreamed of growing up and being an auto mechanic. Later, following a dispute with a teacher, he was placed in a special class for pupils with mental disabilities attended only by Romani children, as a punitive measure. No psychological assessment preceded the decision and neither he nor his parents were informed of or consented to his placement in the special class. This decision affected the remainder of his academic career, his educational prospects and his opportunities to access

Full post as published by JURIST - Hotline on November 24, 2010 (boomark / email).