Re:Roma Gypsies flee to California after Europe turns more h...
by jdietrich on Monday September 19, 2016 @07:31PM
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It is an extraordinarily thorny topic.
To my mind, the most crucial issue is education. Travellers have both practical barriers and negative attitudes towards education, leading to the lowest literacy rates of any demographic in Britain. A majority of traveller children do not complete primary education.
Given the immense importance of education in the modern world, it is inevitable that travellers will be economically and socially marginalised. Illiteracy poses a near-impassible barrier to engagement with mainstream society.
Significant effort has been made in the UK to engage traveller families in education, but to no avail; school attendance and educational attainment is actually declining among traveller children.
Unless this impasse is broken, there is little hope for travellers.
To my mind, the most crucial issue is education. Travellers have both practical barriers and negative attitudes towards education, leading to the lowest literacy rates of any demographic in Britain. A majority of traveller children do not complete primary education.
Given the immense importance of education in the modern world, it is inevitable that travellers will be economically and socially marginalised. Illiteracy poses a near-impassible barrier to engagement with mainstream society.
Significant effort has been made in the UK to engage traveller families in education, but to no avail; school attendance and educational attainment is actually declining among traveller children.
Unless this impasse is broken, there is little hope for travellers.
https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/handle/10871/1... http://wikireadia.org.uk/index.php?title=Travellers_and_lite... http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/38614/1/McCaffery%2C_Juliet.pdf