The latest study on antiziganism quotes several examples of discrimination of Sinti and Roma in the German education system.

There's one report on elementary school students bullying their Sinto classmate to the point where he was too afraid to go to school. Teachers then threatened his parents with reporting their children's frequent absence to the youth welfare office. That institution could have the child removed from his family.

Another report says a daycare center deemed that a five-year-old, trilingual Sinto child had a developmental delay. It wanted to send him to a special needs kindergarten, despite the fact that a pediatrician could not detect any developmental issue.

There are several reports that schools refused admission to Sinti and Roma children or wanted to move them to special schools because they believe Sinti and Roma families in general cause problems.

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"We are receiving reports of assaults and attacks against Sinti and Roma in kindergartens and schools in all German states. Verbal bullying, but also physical attacks, in which children are systematically beaten," Guillermo Ruiz told DW. He is the Managing Director of the Reporting and Information Center for Antiziganism in Germany, which published the study "Antiziganism in the educational sector using schools and daycare centers as an example."

"It's alarming how often teachers do not intervene to prevent bullying and physical attacks. We hear of such incidents........

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