Minister of Education Slavica Djukić Dejanović announced that the educational inspection will visit schools throughout Serbia, in order to determine the reasons why they are not working, after the second the semester began in most parts of the country without the school bell ringing due to the teachers' strike.
In how many schools in Serbia started the second semester yesterday, it is difficult to determine because the trade unions and the Ministry of Education present diametrically opposite data. According to the data of the Independent Union of Educational Workers of Serbia, more than 50 percent of schools in the country suspended work yesterday. The forum of Belgrade high schools announced that there were no classes in 90 percent of high schools in Belgrade.
The President of Serbia from Davos claims that 77 percent of schools were working regularly, and for today he announces the return of even more students.
Prime Minister Miloš Vučević assures that more than 80 percent of schools have classes and announces an educational inspection in schools that have suspended classes. The inspection has already started visiting some schools, and it spent the whole morning at Valjevska Gymnasium.
During yesterday, several pressures and threats were recorded against teachers and school principals who stopped work.
Student protest in front of the College of Electrical Engineering and Computing
The protest was also announced by the students, who will gather in Voždovac.
Namely, the student plenum of the College of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Belgrade, after an incident during the previous night, invited all faculties, student organizations and individuals to join them on Tuesday, January 21, at 11.52:XNUMX in front of the College of Electrical Engineering and Computing to show solidarity, unity and perseverance in the fight for the rights of all students".
"An unknown person drew the silhouette of the middle finger on the facade of the school, apparently with the intention of provoking the students participating in the blockade." The porter and the students reacted quickly to stop the perpetrator, but they were attacked on that occasion. "The person did not act alone, he was accompanied by several people who later came to help and actively caused conflict with our colleagues," the announcement states.
The student plenum of the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science stated that during the incident, "the student and the porter suffered injuries, including bites, while the attacker threatened to return with the statement that he would 'break everyone's head'."
The attacker of the students of the Higher Electrical Engineering School was arrested
Members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Belgrade, PS Voždovac in cooperation with the Second Basic Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade, arrested Z. Lj. (19) due to the existence of grounds for suspicion that he committed criminal acts of violent behavior and destruction and damage to other people's property.
According to reports, he drew graffiti at the High School of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Belgrade, and then attacked students in the blockade who came to prevent him from doing so.
