Arson
Published by deviousdiva June 1st, 2007 in Roma.This is the segregated school today…
Posted with a very heavy heart. (Photographs of the school itself from GHM)
Vandalised and then set on fire on the 4th April. The few pupils still going to the school are now using a single prefab building. It is not about the buildings. The school was illegal anyway and the children should have been attending the main schools in the area. It’s about the very unsubtle messages that are being sent to the children who went there. They were unwanted at the local schools and were forced to attend an illegal, substandard and segregated school. Now they don’t even have that.
Let’s not forget who this is affecting.
thanks for this DD
we were shocked too when we saw that
and then recalled that a few days after that arson, a large school was damaged by an earthquake in Trihonida;
but that was not a school for Roma
so the state within one week had all necessary prefabs so that after the Easter break pupils did not miss a class
while here, as they say in Greek, κατι τρέχει στα γύφτικα (who cares about what happens in the gyp quarters?)
it’s repulsive.
lovely picture of the kids, btw.
Your post does not make clear who is thought to be responsible for burning down the building. Also, can you reveal what Roma parents are doing themselves to ensure that their children receive an education? What self-help programmes have Roma parents put in place to overcome the indifference and prejudices their children face?
I am really saddened by this and the story it linked to, which I had not seen before. All kids deserve a good start in life, whatever their background and ethnicity. The supposed deficiencies of their parents are a reason for trying harder with the kids. I would have thought that should go without saying in Europe.
Here in Amaliada the Roma have no school at all. I thought there was no requirement that they be educated. They spend their days begging for money or just hanging around.
Thanks for this.
see today in Ta Nea a food article announced in the front page http://www.tanea.gr/ and then continued in http://www.tanea.gr//Article.a.....id=4869802 and http://www.tanea.gr//Article.a.....id=4869799