Oslo, Nov 27 (ANI): A Norwegian school has sparked a race row after segregating ethnic minority classmates because white children were feeling 'in the minority.'
The move, at Bjerke Upper Secondary School in Oslo, divided students and parents, sparking a protests across the city, the Daily Mail reports.
Teachers at the school claimed the segregation was a result of many white Norwegians changing schools after feeling they were in 'the minority' in classes.
The school's decision was only discovered after parent Avtar Singh, a Punjabi Norwegian, confronted Gro Flaten, the school's headmistress, on why his son, Gurjot, had no ethnic Norwegian classmates.
"She said straight out that the school had experienced ethnic Norwegian students dropping out if they weren't grouped together in smaller classes," he told the Dagsavisen newspaper.
Flaten, however, told The Telegraph that they made the decision as many Norwegian students were moving to other schools because they were in classes with such a high percentage of students from other nations. They seemed to be in a minority.
According to the report, after school authorities were alerted, they sent an apology letter to parents and scrapped the scheme.
Currently there are 420,000 'non-Nordic' citizens who immigrated between 1990 and 2009, and who make up 28 percent of Oslo's population.
Immigration has become a difficult subject for Norwegians after Anders Breivik, the anti-Islamic extremist who massacred 77 people in Oslo in July, told police he wanted to spark a 'revolution" against the multiculturalism that according to him was sapping Europe's heritage. (ANI)
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