How to end ‘apartheid’ in Dutch schools?

The Dutch cabinet wants this country’s primary schools to be more integrated. But the government has backed down from proposals made last year to attempt to force school integration.

This middle road has aroused the ire of parties to the left and to the right. The Socialist Party even talks about a system of apartheid in the Dutch schools, and wants the national government to do more to force integration.

On the other hand, the Christian parties are concerned that the pilot projects the government has proposed impinge on the identity of parochial schools.

So how bad is the problem of segregation in Dutch primary education?

Read the article: Radio Netherlands, 19 March 2008