CADO wins at the High Court of Cassation and Justice against the Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu School and the Iași County School Inspectorate in the case of school segregation of Roma children!

On February 20, 2020, the Supreme Court of Cassation quashes the decision of the Court of Appeal, Iasi, 2017, by the annulment of the decision of the National Council for Combating Discrimination, by the sanction of the School, Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, and the School district in the County of Iasi, with respect to the segregation of the ethnicity of the students of the roma population in each of the 7 buildings of the school.

In April 2016, the Centre for civil society and Human Rights (ECHR) has filed a complaint with the National Council for Combating Discrimination (NCCD), which was against the School, Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu Iasi County School Inspectorate of Iasi, because the segregation of roma children. The specific reasons for the complaint was that, in the context of this school, the students learn the 7 buildings, but the majority of the pupils of roma origin have been housed in building C, reaching, according to data provided by the school, more than 50% of the total number of students out of the body. A group of parents, the romani people have complained about the quality of the educational process in the body where the majority of the kids, even after the completion of the class, a Few were unable to read and write correctly by the fact that the majority of teachers are the custodians or the pension re-employed. In this case, has been identified within the framework of the monitoring of the gender segregation in the education of roma pupils carried out in more than 112 cities and towns in the republic Moldova. The results of the monitoring showed that about 50% of the villages, the children of the roma population is suffering from some form of segregation in school (http://www.cado.org.ro/raportul-de-monitorizare-a-segregarii-scolare-in-regiunea-nord-est.html).

THE he decided that in this situation, and that is the settlement, in a single body with the building of the roma children, when the school has several buildings, i.e. the tolerance of these situations, the SCHOOL inspectorate of Iasi is discrimination against and violation of the law of the dignity according to the government ordinance no. 137/2000 on preventing and sanctioning all forms of discrimination. As a result, the fine administrative fine of £ 3000, School, Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, Science, and 5,000 lei to the County School Inspectorate of Iasi.

In 2017, the Court of Appeal in Iasi, set aside the judgment of THE reason that the claim of the ECHR, is due to the arondării geographical and apartenței ethnic group, which is an important extrinsic. The level of education and the facilities of the challenged they are not the result of discrimination, but it's a no-win situation for the school, and the SCHOOL has been trying to improve and pregătiriea of the students in the class by the teachers, substitute teachers, or retirement, re-employed is not an issue of discrimination, but it is one for the violation of the dignity of those teachers. In the same year, the ECHR, and THE attacking on appeal the decision of the Court of Appeal, Iaşi, romania.

So, after about 4 years now, we have a final decision, which is to maintain the decision of THE feeling that the segregation of students in the school and in the Body of the Edge is the segregation of an act of racial discrimination.

The decision of the high court can be accessed at the following link: http://www.cado.org.ro/uploads/Litigation/Decizia_1015_2020_iccj.pdf

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