discrimination education children history
Ethnic discrimination in education by the State
<p>I found a <a href="https://www.petitions.net/history-md" rel="nofollow noreferrer">petition</a> on the potential ethnic discrimination/division of children by the national Ministry of Education.</p>
<p>The case describes a possible ethnic discrimination by the Ministry of Education in Moldova, where all the Moldovan children are &quot;forced&quot; by the Ministry to study the History of &quot;Romanians&quot;, regardless the ethnicity of children (moldovan, jews, russian, ukranian, romanian, gagauz, etc): all should learn the history of the &quot;romanians&quot;.</p>
<p>Wondering if there are such analogical legal cases in the Europe or in the World where the State was attacked based on the discrimination in the school object name.</p>

<p>There are many analogous cases throughout the world, but like the petition you cite, they are not legal, they are political, e.g. the Kautokeino rebellion, the Basque conflict, Turkish-only laws in Turkey, Bantu minorities in Somalia, Jim Crow laws in the US. A legal case would be when parties file a lawsuit in some higher court, to force a government to cease a policy of ethnically-based discrimination. There were a number of cases arising in the US, which centered around the policy of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separate_but_equal" rel="nofollow noreferrer">&quot;separate but equal&quot;</a> which was found unconstitutional in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Brown v. Board of Education</a>.</p>
<p>On the political front, there has been a long standing debate over curricular matters, where not everybody's culture is given equal treatment in public school curricula. In order to successfully sue over the practice, there has to be an underlying legal basis, for example a law mandating that such-and-such be taught in the schools. <a href="https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=28A.230.020" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Washington state law</a> mandates teaching US history, and does not mandate teaching Chinese history, so a lawsuit over not teaching US history would succeed and one over not teaching Chinese history would fail. The courts would find that it is up to the legislature, or the local school board, to establish the rules regarding what is to be taught.</p>
<p>It may be that there are cases where a school district is sued because they aren't following the rules set by higher authorities. It is an absolute fact that schools do not teach the history and culture of all of the students in their classes.</p>
