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František is one of the few Romani children at a mainstream elementary school primarily attended by non-Roma pupils in a city in the northeast of the country. When František was in the fourth grade his teacher started to complain that the boy was “too lively”. The teacher advised his mother, Renata, to send the boy for assessment by a psychological advisory centre; the centre recommended Frantisek’s temporary transfer for four-months to a “practical elementary school” for diagnostic purposes (diagnostic stay).
After the four months passed, the director of the practical school recommended that František should return to the mainstream elementary school, as his results and behaviour were so good that would by no means justify his schooling at a practical school, teaching a reduced curriculum.
When František returned to the mainstream school at the end of the school year, he failed his final exams as the four months he spent at the practical school had a negative effect in his learning process. František had to repeat the fourth grade, not supported by his teacher and teased by his classmates. He did not want to go to school anymore. His mother decided to move him to a segregated Roma-only school.
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