Classes in two schools and online, Peta is empty, the acting principal is counting students in surprise visits... How is the government living over Peta Belgrade Gymnasium, whose students dared to protest?
Fifth Belgrade Gymnasium it was unblocked more than a week ago, but Since then, students have been attending classes according to the hybrid model - once a week remotely (online), and the other days in the classroom, but not in their school.
When they go to classrooms, students from Peta always go to the afternoon shift. First- and third-year students are assigned to "Radojka Lakić" Elementary School, while second- and fourth-year students have classes at "Isidora Sekulić" Elementary School.
The government's message: this is what will happen to those who dare to protest. As in the case of "Jovina" high school in Novi Sad.
Due to the problems in Peta, representatives of the Council of Parents, Students and Teachers met on Tuesday (December 2) with members of the Academic Board for Education of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU) and explained the current situation at the school.
"We systematically told them everything that happened in the last few months without expecting them to be able to do anything, but we thought it was important that they, as the Academic Board of Education, have that information. We believe that they will do everything in their power to improve the situation," says one of the parents of students of the Fifth Belgrade High School who attended the meeting.
Academic Board for Education of SANU he announced last week that certain moves Ministry of Education in recent months, they are causing immeasurable damage to the already damaged education system in Serbia.
They came to such conclusions by considering the current situation in primary and secondary schools, it was stated in the statement.
At the beginning of this school year, a certain number of Fifth grade teachers did not have their employment contract extended, and the employed teachers are those who, according to parents' claims, do not meet the criteria for teaching. The students later blockaded the school on October 13, demanding, among other things, the dismissal of the school's acting principal, Danka Nešović.
The students broke the blockade on November 24, as they were promised a competition for the director, the students announced.
The competition has not yet been announced, and students do not attend classes at their school.
The father of a student of the fifth high school and a representative of the Council of Parents tells "Vreme" that the way classes currently work does not look like a school.
"This is a simulant of education. The children go to two other schools, and once a week they have an online class. That online class does not look like a class, it is only sending materials if the class is held at all. Many teachers do not hold classes online, they do not participate in the class," says the "Vremena" interlocutor.
The mother of a child who goes to the Fifth Gymnasium says that most of the children have gone to other two schools, and that the Fifth Gymnasium is empty and that no one has come to investigate, as the MUP announced.
"In the other two schools, there is general chaos, two-meter-tall children sit in first class benches, they don't have a physical education room, so then they don't have that lesson or they have physical education outside in this cold. They don't even have an IT office, so they lose half the lessons."
While the parents claim that no one has been in the school since November 24, the Minister of Education Dejan Vuk Stanković states that the children have not been returned to their school because "there are those blocking it" and that the school must be "physically emptied of blockers" in order for inspectors to investigate whether the property has been stolen, what is the condition of the installations, whether illegal construction work has been carried out.
"The building has been completely empty since November 24, and no one has entered the building since that date," says a representative of the Parents' Council.
Teachers employed at the Fifth Belgrade High School were not paid two salaries, claims the interlocutor of "Vremena".
"Teachers have not received their salaries, even though the school is unblocked and the administration is working. Certificates for students to attend school regularly have not been resolved, so they cannot receive health cards. Both teachers and students have been officially told that the priority is to give transcripts to students who want to withdraw from school. According to the data we have, few students have asked for transcripts," he claims.
In addition to the salary problem, one mother of a fifth grade student states that the teachers also have a problem with the organization of classes in two schools.
"As classes are organized in two separate schools that are quite far away, they have to sit on the transport and run from one to the other. So sometimes they physically cannot make it to class. On top of all that, the acting director Danka Nešović breaks into those other schools' classes and counts the children. Any teacher who complains about this kind of behavior will be immediately sanctioned", says the "Vremena" interviewee.
"Vreme" previously sent questions to the administration of the Fifth Belgrade High School and the Ministry of Education about when classes in this school will be organized again, but there was no answer.
Part of the parents of students of the Fifth Belgrade High School believes that classes in the other two schools could be organized according to the hybrid model until February, when the term of office of the current acting director ends.
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