The play Chameleon Girl deals with the hero stories of
the youngsters participating in the "Roma heroes" workshops of
Independent Theatre. The stories tell a lot about the diversity of Roma communities, their
challenges and qualities. Chameleon Girl in the play is a fictional character
trying to adapt to her environment in all situations but at some point, she has
to a make a decision that will determine her whole life.
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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