Almost the entire class enrolled from one primary school in Zagreb this summer because peer violence and only one student starts fourth grade, Croatian media reported.
It is said that the parents were forced to make that move after months of appealing to all institutions to help them get rid of the disturbing and violent situations their children were experiencing in class because of one violent student, HRT reported.
As Jutarnji list reports, as many as 14 out of a total of 16 fourth-grade students withdrew because of the boy who, according to the parents, abused the rest of the class.
It is added that another boy is in the process of being enrolled, and according to that, only the student who, according to the parents, abused their children should remain in the class.
The principal of that Zagreb school confirmed the information that 14 students from that class had enrolled.
"It's true, 14 students of that class signed up, but everything will be known next week when we see the real condition of the children." Not all parents have responded, so we'll have to see what happens when classes start on Monday. We solve everything in agreement with the City Office for Education. In my many years of practice, both as a teacher and as a school director, I don't know that it has ever happened that the whole class signed up. I haven't experienced that yet, unfortunately it obviously happens," she pointed out.
According to reports, the enrolled children will attend the fourth grade in several other schools.
Parents say that the worst thing is that they never received official answers to requests and calls for help.
"According to the information available to me, a meeting will be held in the competent ministry on Monday, at which all participants will be present and I hope that an agreement will be reached, that is, that this situation will finally be resolved," said the ombudsman for children of Hellenac Pirnat Dragičević for Croatian Radio.
