The National Council for Combating Discrimination (CNCD) fined a school in Vilca county 2,000 lei, finding that it had committed indirect discrimination when it created separate classes for students based on ethnicity and place of residence. At the same time, the school must rectify the situation, reports News.ro.

The Board of Directors of the National Council for Combating Discrimination decided at a meeting on Wednesday that the act of the high school “Luka Solomon” in the commune of Vaideeni, Vilcha county, on the creation of separate classes of students based on the criteria of ethnicity and place of residence, represents indirect discrimination, according to Art. 2 clause 3 of Art. 2 p. 4 in conjunction with Art. 11 p. 1 of the Order.

“The board of directors decided to apply a fine for violation in the amount of 2,000 lei, a recommendation to implement order no. 6134/2016 Framework for banning school segregation in units of pre-university education and providing a 6-month monitoring period to remedy the situation with discrimination. The declaratory decision was adopted unanimously by 8 votes, and the sanction was established by 6 votes “for” and 2 “against”, CNCD reports. (photo: Svetlanaz, Dreamstime.com)