Professor of Serbian language and literature at the Philological High School in Belgrade, Mirjana Stakić Savković, said on Tuesday at protest in front of Ministry of Education that in these weeks of love marches, the question of the continuation of the class still bothers some and they are again interested in the form, not the substance.
Savković assessed that they did not understand that a good teacher can hold his lessons in meadows, on the street, on a bridge, if the students want to hear him, believe him and if the teacher knows what to tell them.
"We didn't leave the classrooms, we made them more visible," said Stakić Savković and emphasized that the whole of Serbia has become a big traveling classroom.
Threats to teachers
She added that it is true that the teachers were invisible for a long time and that they only got wider media space when some incidents happened at school, but that after a long time they fought back so that now good students are becoming news.
Photo: Marija JankovićProtest of educators
Stakić Savković pointed out that in the previous days teachers received threats that they would not have bread for their children and that their salary would be reduced.
"They tried to humiliate us with e-diaries and paperwork." A good classroom is not an administrative branch and a conversation with a student is always better than a note about him", said Stakić Savković and added that teachers are not statisticians, and students are not numbers and reports.
Broken promises
Professor at the Faculty of Teacher Education Vladimir Vukomanović Rastegorac called on the crowd to make a lot of noise, in the hope that the Ministry of Education would hear them.
Vukomanović Rastegorac said that the reasons for gathering in front of the Ministry are broken promises, disrespect and humiliation of educational workers, constant pressure, threats, blackmail and manipulation.
"Representatives of the Ministry of Education, you are responsible for that." "You say everything is fine and 'go to school,' but we say nothing is as it should be and the most important lesson is in progress," he said.
He added that in that class, educators show that words cannot be trampled on without consequences, and the time has come to say enough.
Photo: Marija JankovićProtest of educators
Total suspension of classes
He emphasized that the total suspension of classes is the answer to the total collapse of education and at the same time the last wake-up call.
"You say that the students should return to the amphitheaters - we say that the students turned this country into an amphitheater and we learn together," said Vukomanović Rastegorac and added that they learn the language of compassion and dignified resistance, how to peacefully fight for justice, how people unite and change society from the inside.
He repeated that they all gathered in front of the Ministry because they have the same basic goal, which is to respect the law and respect knowledge.
Source: FoNet
