School has to pay indemnity because of refused admission of lesbian parents’ child

As Index reports, according to a final decision made by Budapest-Capital Regional Court,  KisPest Waldorf school has to pay 350,000 HUF non-material compensation and interest, because they refused the admission of a child in 2013 after the parents said: the child is being raised by two mothers – writes the Society named Háttér, the legal representative of the plaintiff.

As Index has reported earlier, the mother, living in a lesbian domestic partnership, wanted her son to go to the seventh grade of the school in Kispest, but they got refused in the last moment before the beginning of the school year. The school said that it was for the good of the child, because they would not have been able to protect him from the teasing of his classmates. The case headed to the Equal Treatment Authority (EBH) and the school got condemned.  It was the child’s first meeting with discrimination. According to the school, nothing similar has happened in the institution before; they tried to avoid any form of bias.

EBH made a decision important for the same-sex couples raising a child in another case, when they stated that it is not allowed to refuse the admission of a child only because he or she is living in a family different from what is conventional in the majority society. The mother felt that the penalty of 50,000 HUF determined by EBH humiliating and very low, so she prosecuted for compensation.