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  • A Czech school was under fire Thursday following a media report suggesting it had divided six-year-olds based on the colour of their skin. The Novinky.cz news site reported that the parents of the children at a school in the northern city of Most with a large Roma minority complained there was a white-only class and two classes comprising largely Roma children. "Why don't they let the kids learn to be together? They live here together anyway," it quoted a mother as saying, complaining that her daughter was placed in a Roma-only class. Reacting to the story, Andrew Stroehlein, the director of European media at the international rights watchdog Human Rights Watch, tweeted that the school was "dividing up its first-grade classes by skin colour." "Parents are -- very rightly -- outraged," he added. Headmaster Josef Forman, however, told AFP the division was pure coincidence as the children were enrolled on a first-come, first-served basis and according to their interest in attending a sports class, which is one of the three first-grade classes. "1A is a sports class. We don't have a Roma child in the first-grade sports class right now, but we do have Roma kids in sports classes in the second, third and fourth grades," he said. "It's not true that we have only Roma kids in the other two classes, there are white children too, but given the situation in Most, we can't avoid... having 80 percent of Roma and 20 percent of white kids in a class," he added. Rights watchdog Amnesty International has repeatedly criticised the Czech Republic over alleged discrimination against Roma children. In an April review of human rights in Europe, Amnesty noted "the prevalence of segregated schools where the large majority of pupils are Roma." An EU member of 10.7 million people, the Czech Republic has a Roma minority estimated at 250,000-300,000, but in a 2011 census, only 5,000 people said they were Roma while 7,000 said they had both Czech and Roma nationality. "Given the long history of resistance to integrating Roma children in Czech schools, the headmaster's excuses are very hard to believe," Stroehlein told AFP. Zdenek Rysavy, head of the Prague-based Roma rights watchdog Romea, said the case was "strange". "We haven't talked to the parents yet... but if it's true, it's definitely very wrong," he told AFP. frj/mas/gd
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  • Czech school under fire for alleged racial segregation
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