The public schools in the city of Utrecht is now going to celebrate Sinterklaas without Zwarte Piet. It has schools dome SPO together with school directors decided.
According to them to do it the only way justice to the principles of public education. One of those points is that everyone is equal, so that there is no discrimination on grounds of belief, ethnic coming, orientation, appearance or other characteristics.
According to the SPO Utrecht Zwarte Piet racist characteristics, and there is therefore no place for this figure in the public schools.
Debate
SPO Utrecht conducted long been a broad discussion with parents and school principals about the Sinterklaas. Last year, the entire abolition of Zwarte Piet went too far for the dome. Utrecht has 33 public elementary schools.
The coming period, which schools determine how the party is now exactly will look like.
Earlier speaking school boards in The Hague now go off together for a neutral Piet, one without discriminatory features. Even in public schools in Rotterdam is the classic Black Peter is no longer welcome. So Peter must in that city stripped of black curly hair and dark skin, the full red lips and earrings.
A mother holding her child are sitting at one of the elementary schools in Utrecht, switched last year to the College of Human Rights to Zwarte Piet eliminate completely from the curriculum of the elementary school her child.
,, A school does not discriminate when it celebrates with Zwarte Piet Sinterklaas 2014. The school has done enough to ensure a discrimination-free educational environment '', as it was then called the conclusion of the college. ,, For the year after the judgment can be different because Zwarte Piet is discriminatory aspects. ''
Marijn van Gelder / ad.nl/ ANP
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