A scene from The Hardest Word, a play by Richard R. O’Neill, in which Jess Smith decides: the Scottish first minister must apologise to Traveller people for the long centuries of discrimination. The play has had a huge impact in Scotland: as a result, in the 21st century, Scottish Travellers were finally recognized as an ethnic minority, and, although the government did not apologise, the church did so and started several services for Travellers. Thus, in a country where pubs often have signs forbidding Travellers to enter, health services such as cancer screening became accessible for Traveller people.
What can a schoolgirl do to fight injustice? What do we look for in pedagogues? What can we do for our children to be taught of equality and accepting each other in school? In primary school, I always sat in the first or second row. I hated it! I always wanted to sit in the last row because there, I could have been next to the window watching the whole class. From time to time, some of the "worst" boys were seated next to me. The rules for table plan were the following: 1. bad students sit next to good students 2. if you are a good student and do something wrong (which happened to me quite often) then you will get a Gypsy next to you For a few days or for months, it depended on the scale of the punishment. I liked those boys because they found this process unfair, too. I had three seatmate by this method in the first four years of primary school. When teachers realized that this seating arrangement was no problem for us and we even made friends, I ...
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