Photo: TimeThe winter vacation for elementary and high school students throughout Serbia has begun and will last until Monday, January 20, 2025. Students of certain schools remain persistent and continue with blockades and protests
Conclusion about at the end of the first semester The Government of Serbia adopted it on Friday, December 20, and on this occasion the Ministry of Education sent a letter to schools stating that a student who has the opportunity and wishes to improve his grade should be allowed to respond and improve his grade at the end of the first semester.
Also, schools are recommended to 27. December complete all activities related to the awarding of student cards.
Extended stay in schools, where it exists, will be organized also until 27. Decemberexcept for schools from the territory of the AP Vojvodina, in which the previously established calendar of educational work is scheduled to start on December 24.
The first semester in the territory of the whole of Serbia, except for Vojvodina, where according to the school calendar it is planned to end on December 23, was shortened according to the conclusion of the Government of Serbia due to circumstances that affect the quality and preservation of the teaching process, as well as the interest and right of students to education.
Minister of Education: The safety of children is at risk
Minister of Education Slavica Đukić Dejanović stated earlier that it is considered that the safety and quality of children's education are currently impaired, as some schools are under blockade.
"Precisely due to the fact that some schools are blocked, that there are strikes somewhere, that the trade unions are announcing complete suspensions, we think that the quality of the achievement of educational goals is disrupted and that a vacation at this moment is desirable for that reason," explained Đukić Dejanović. .
She told all elementary and secondary schools to allow students to improve their grades if they want to.
"We also suggest that all activities related to the practical formation of student records be up to 27. December, such as the obligation of all those institutions that have residences, that those residences in the territory of Serbia outside of Vojvodina also work until that date," said Đukić Dejanović.
Vučić criticizes the directors
On December 17, the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, opposed the student protests at the Government session, criticizing the ministers.
"What do school principals do?" Students can do what they want, they are of legal age, but what do you do with children?" Vučić asked.
Four representative trade unions, the Union of Education Workers' Union of Serbia, the Education Trade Union of Serbia, the Education Trade Union Nezavisnost and the Trade Union of Education Workers of Serbia, demanded the immediate cancellation of the government's decision on "premature" vacation. They stated that the students were forced to shorten their classes and were deprived of the opportunity to study and complete their grades as planned.
Students do not give up
An increasing number of high school graduates are announcing that they will continue to come to school, despite the start of the holidays.
Next week, starting from the first day of vacation on December 24, we will spend our time at our school, the graduates of the Zemun High School said.
In a statement published on Instagram, they condemned the decision of the Ministry of Education to start the winter vacation earlier.
"We believe that this conclusion was made tactically." We do not doubt the obvious intention of the top of the state to stop the blockade and rebellion of high school students. We state that this kind of move is inhumane and represents a disregard for the rights and reducing the dissatisfaction of the graduates to the lowest pedestal", stated the graduates of the Zemun High School.
The graduates of the Philological High School also decided to continue with coming to school and the blockade.
Their peers from the Eighth Belgrade High School unanimously voted at the plenum that despite the enforced start of the vacation on December 24, they will go to school and continue the blockade.
The situation is similar in Novi Sad, where the graduates of the "Jovan Jovanović Zmaj" Gymnasium announced that they will remain in school during the holidays - until the requirements are met.
The graduates thanked "all the employees, and especially the professors, who, despite the challenges and pressures, remained committed and provided support", portal 021 reports.
They also announced that the salaries of the employees at the school were paid on December 20, and that employees in the accounting department were allowed to enter the school despite the blockade.
"We note that there are alternative ways to perform financial activities that do not require physical presence in the institution. However, the director insisted on personal entrance to the school as a necessary condition for the payment of salaries", stated the graduates.
Graduates of the First Niš High School "Stevan Sremac" blocked the school and will be in classrooms until the end of the working week.
They also read the announcement of Vera Dujaković, the director of the First Niš High School, in which she tells the students that she is proud of their initiative to support the students and not to let anyone discourage them.
Vucevic threatened the directors
Speaking about the announcement of certain schools that they will organize classes even after the earlier holiday set by the Ministry of Education and the Government, Vucevic said that the time for the holiday is determined by the state, that is, the line ministry, not individual schools, principals or professors.
"And how will they evaluate the students during the holidays?" How can they blackmail, when the state said it was a holiday? It's not their private school. It must be possible to teach when it is time for teaching and it must be possible to allow vacation when it is time for vacation. And the time for vacation is determined by the state, that is, the relevant ministry. Full stop," said Vucevic for Pink television.
According to him, the school directors were chosen by the school board as representatives of local self-government and the state, and confirmed by the Ministry of Education.
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