In the middle of August, educational institutions received an order from the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports to elect school board members from the collective, i.e. from the Teachers’ Council and the Parents’ Council. However, the problem is a quorum, so in a number of schools it was even thought that this obligation would be completed via Skype and Viber, which is illegal, because representatives of schools and parents in school boards are elected by secret ballot. Professor and president of the Association of Social Groups of Subjects Stanka Vukcevic points out for CdM that this is a blow to educational institutions and the entire educational system from which it is difficult to recover for a long time.
Vukcevic states that a big problem has resulted from the wrong order of activities that were recently advised to educational institutions by the instructions of the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports.
“Unfortunately, this process was unhappily regulated and envisaged by the amendments to the General Law on Education and Upbringing, which came into force on 12 June. Instead of starting the election of school board members and their constitution after these amendments, which provided for incredibly short deadlines for all these actions, the Ministry started dismissing headteachers and appointing acting headteachers, which, as was seen and proven, was a huge mistake. So, we started from the roof, even though the house is built from the ground up”, says Vukcevic.
