Allocation to Remedial Special Schools
Allocation to Remedial Special Schools

Summary/Abstract: Romani children are enrolled directly in remedial special schools or are transferred there after having begun education in a basic school. The ERRC documented a number of abuses of the rights of Roma in connection with the enrollment of Romani children in remedial special schools. First of all, the rights of Romani parents to make an informed decision about the educational future of their children is abused in a variety of ways. Secondly, disproportionate numbers of Romani children are recommended for the psychological evaluation that comprise the justification for enrollment in or transfer to remedial special school. Third, Romani children are subjected to a psychological evaluation, the arbitrary nature of which leaves them exposed to numerous opportunities for discriminatory abuse. Romani children are often sent to remedial special schools without any kind of professional evaluation. There are also documented instances in which Romani children are enrolled in remedial special schools because of linguistic differences from non-Romani Czechs, behavioural problems, or at times for reasons as distantly related to learning ability as the fact that they walk oddly (...)

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