Prague – Based on the European Fee (EC), the Czech Republic will not be successfully addressing the segregation of Roma kids in faculties. Due to this fact, Brussels has initiated proceedings towards Prague for violating EU laws on combating racial and ethnic discrimination. The group Romea agrees with the criticism, stating that inserting Roma college students in particular courses has a adverse impression on their integration into society. Alternatively, the principal of a major college within the Ústí neighborhood of Mojžíř considers the allegations of discrimination nonsensical. In response to the EC’s criticism, the Ministry of Schooling said that it’s conscious of the problems and plans to current the already carried out measures and a brand new Motion Plan for Desegregation to the fee. Based on the ombudsman, the state of affairs of Roma kids in faculties will not be considerably enhancing.
The fee criticizes the Czech Republic for not adhering to the Race Equality Directive, which prohibits discrimination based mostly on ethnic origin in key areas of life, together with schooling. Brussels despatched a name to handle the disproportionate and systematic placement of Roma college students into separate faculties for kids with disabilities to Prague over ten years in the past. The fee has now despatched a so-called extra invitation, and the Czech Republic has two months to reply and handle the deficiencies.
“Concerning, for instance, the variety of Roma college students in courses for college kids with particular instructional wants, they’re certainly persistently greater than what would correspond to the illustration of Roma within the inhabitants,” mentioned immediately to a ČTK question the ministry’s spokeswoman, Tereza Fojtová. Based on her, the ministry desires to current the already set measures and the brand new Motion Plan for Desegregation, which the Czech Republic is fulfilling, to the fee. At present, the ministry is creating a strategy for college founders with different establishments and companions. Based on the survey from March final 12 months, there are practically eighty faculties within the Czech Republic the place nearly all of college students are Roma kids. In practically twenty faculties within the republic, nearly solely Roma female and male college students attend. Within the Czech Republic, there have been a complete of 4276 major faculties final college 12 months, in line with ministry statistics.
Based on the information from the Ministry of Schooling, it’s clear to the ombudsman Stanislav Křeček that the state of affairs of Roma kids in faculties will not be enhancing considerably. “Roughly 1 / 4 of Roma college students are educated in applications with decreased calls for,” said Křeček. He due to this fact really useful, amongst different issues, that the Ministry of Schooling lead college counseling amenities to extra often use trendy diagnostic instruments. The outdated diagnostics, in line with Křeček, might not appropriately distinguish innate mental talents and environmental influences in Roma college students. (October 3)
