The migrant crisis is so bad in Denmark that one school is being forced to separate children based on ethnicity just to keep ethnic Danes from leaving.
A Danish school in the city of Aarhus is creating separate classes for migrant children and ethnic Danes, although the school plans on keeping mixed classes as long as there’s an even ratio of the two demographics within the given class. There will now be four migrant classes that include migrant children themselves and the children of migrants born in Denmark and two mixed classes that include an equal number of migrant children and ethnic Danes.
The proposal is a corrective to the city’s lopsided demographics. Ethnic Danes have actually become minorities in their own city as a result of the massive influx of refugees and migrants pouring across Denmark’s borders. Many have settled in the small city of Aarhus.
“About 25 percent of the school’s pupils were either migrants or the children of migrant parents in 2007, but that number has since risen to 80 percent,” reports The Washington Post.
This extreme demographic shift has forced the school to take bold steps to ensure that ethnic Danes don’t leave the district.
The Danish school’s classes will differ from migrant-exclusive courses in Germany’s “international classes” that seek to assimilate refugee and migrant children as soon as possible.
The sheer number of migrant children now attending the school has made the school give up on the quaint idea of integration. Simply put, it’s a fool’s errand to attempt to integrate a now-dominant majority into a minority culture.
International human rights groups as well as domestic civil rights groups have already criticized the school for the new proposal, claiming it amounts to illegal segregation.
But the school has pushed back, arguing that its hands are tied, as ethnic Danes have promised to leave if they begin feeling uncomfortable at the institution.