As a sign of protest in schools and partial struggle of teachers - this is how it goes September 1, that is, the beginning of the new school year.
The date that used to be a pain only for parents with school children is today state problem. Because the number of teachers who had fixed-term contracts and were fired in schools across the country is measured in the hundreds, says Dušan Kokot, a member of the SID for "Vreme".
"12 people lost their jobs in Mladenovac, 19 in the Fifth Gymnasium, and the number is only increasing. Some people will only receive a notification at the end of the week whether they will continue to work or not, because that's when they have classes," he said on September 1. "Where will these people go is the first question, and the second - who took their place? The system has no right to hire unprofessional people, as long as there are experts in the office, but I'm afraid that such people will start popping up in schools in the country."
Retaliatory dismissals and scheduling in the wee hours
People working for an indefinite period in some schools in the country did not know until the last day whether they would continue to work, say the sources of the newsroom. They had to wait for schedules that were delivered to them at the last minute, usually by new school principals. Thus, in a school in Belgrade, the timetable for this Monday arrived only on Saturday and late in the evening.
The teachers are shocked because they say that something like this has never happened, especially considering that the principals had the whole summer to make a plan and program, if they wanted to. To the staff's questions about when the schedule will arrive and whether the temporary workers will have work at all, one director answered on Friday, three days before the start of the school year, at the official staff meeting - "there is time, just take it easy."
This kind of protocol is not even according to the law, because workers who do shift work must know in advance when they will be assigned. However, in this way, the new directors left them in suspense. This is also a message for those who protested last school year and do not have a permanent contract - look, in just one click on the schedule you can lose your job.
Since the SNS started entering schools in the country en masse, bringing their own people as principals, who again bring with them a whole battalion of progressive machinery, many have already been fired in the past few days.
Students and parents on the street
That is why this beginning of the school year in many schools is accompanied by protests.
Citizens, parents and students of the Fifth Belgrade Gymnasium gathered in front of that school in the morning to protest the actions of the school's acting director, Danka Nešović, by which she dismissed the teachers, and to demand respect for the rights of the teaching staff and students.
Nemanja Milošević's parent told N1 that what is happening in Peta is unacceptable, that it is about "terror and revenge against the teachers who were in the blockade".
A third of the students in the second, third and fourth grades have had their class teacher replaced by these measures.
A protest was also organized in the elementary school "Pavle Savić" in Mirijevo due to the change of the principal. A large number of parents of students of "Jovan Jovanović Zmaj" Gymnasium gathered in the morning of September 1 in front of that school as a sign of protest because their children will attend classes in other schools.
Namely, the students of that school will temporarily attend classes at the Secondary Mechanical and Technical School "Pavle Savić". This will be valid as long as the static safety check of the gymnasium building continues.
As the parents and teachers pointed out, this decision was made at the last moment, the school management only informed them with a short message, without a detailed explanation. The director of the school does not communicate with teachers and parents, so the details regarding classes in the new school year are completely unknown.
The protest was organized the day before in front of the Mladenovac High School, because 12 of their professors were "retaliated against" for supporting student blockades.
