Struggling for Education

Keywords: South Eastern Europe, Croatia, English, Roma & travellers, media content, social diversity models

The small village of Drzimurec in the Croatian region of Medjimurje spent the entire day of Sept. 9 in apprehension over what would happen at the local elementary school.

Since the early morning of that first day of the new school year, parents of Croat pupils had been gathering in front of the building, angry with a government decision ordering Croats to share the classrooms with local Roma pupils. The parents locked the school’s doors, refusing to allow anybody in……
(by Sandra Caric – BETA – MDI, 2002)

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