{"id":1250,"date":"2014-09-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/26-09-2014-louis-de-matignon-gouyon-half-of-the-rroma-children-from-informal-settlements-do-not-attend-school-2\/"},"modified":"2022-08-04T11:44:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T10:44:52","slug":"26-09-2014-louis-de-matignon-gouyon-half-of-the-rroma-children-from-informal-settlements-do-not-attend-school-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/26-09-2014-louis-de-matignon-gouyon-half-of-the-rroma-children-from-informal-settlements-do-not-attend-school-2\/","title":{"rendered":"26.09.2014 Louis de Matignon Gouyon: half of the Rroma children from informal settlements do not attend school"},"content":{"rendered":"

Louis de Gouyon Matignon \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t(2014) reports on the lack of education of Rroma children who live in the informal \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsettlements of France. The lack of training of the children is partly due to \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe lack of appreciation of education by some parents, as well as the result of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe fear of deportation by the French authorities. But above all, it results from \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdiscriminatory practices by French schools. Thus, some schools keep fictitious \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twaiting lists to prevent Rroma from enrolling their children: \u201cIt is now assumed that 53% of Roma children \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdo not attend school. The missing schooling of our young fellow Europeans \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t(usually Romanians or Bulgarians) may result from the will of the parents to \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\thandle basic needs such as food, shelter or clothing with priority; or missing \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tschooling may also result from a bad attitude or from a lack of funds on the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpart of schools: some schools apply fictitious waiting lists to discourage parents \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfrom enrolling their children. Some individual initiatives, based on private \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfunds, such as the creation of small libraries or the establishment of courses \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tby volunteers, are laudable, but they are not sufficient in order to prevent \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tilliteracy among the Roma.\u201d <\/em>It must be stressed here that Gouyon Matignon \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tassumes that 50% of Rroma children from the informal settlements do not go to \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tschool. This does not mean that half of the integrated Rroma children do not \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tattend school. According to estimates of the Rroma Foundation, 100,000 to \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t500,000 Rroma are living in France. The vast majority of them is integrated, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tgoes to work and sends their children to school. Gouyon Matignon therefore falsely \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tequates the Rroma from the slums with all Rroma in France, which is not true. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMany Rroma can read and write. Gouyon Matignon therefore unintentionally \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\treproduces a stereotypical notion of \u200b\u200bthe Rroma. But he is not alone with that: \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmany other authors and institutions equate the Rroma with the visible Rroma from \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe slums (compare Pozycki 2014).<\/p>\n