Small number of students drop parallels in schools

A school in Strazha, Prizren, has only 7 students. An entire school is closed in Lipjan. A separate parallel is locked in Peja's Bobic. A parallel has also been sealed in a Scytheright village.

These are just some of the consequences of reducing the number of children and moving Kosovars from villages to cities.

However, the director of the Education Directorate in Prizren municipality, Skender Susuri, has said they have not closed any schools, despite the declining number of students.

He has added that the situation weighing down with the small number of students this municipality has in remote rural areas.

According to him, in the village of Struzha there is a school that has only 7 students.

Even in Prizren's municipality, however, there is a reduction in the number of students compared to previous years. In a more demanding situation are remote rural areas, such as the village of Struzha, where Albanian language schools operate with a total of 7 students. This is also due to the fact that after the 1998/1999 war due to the total destruction of this village, the population has not returned, respectively, has been displaced in the town of“, Susur said.

In the municipality of Lipjan this year, a school has been closed -- it has been done on the decision of the Inspectorate -- has announced the director of education of this municipality, Rasim Hasani.

Because of the small number of students, this year in the village of Babaq in the Pec municipality closed the separate parallel of primary school “Peter Budi”.

Same luck in this municipality, two years ago, there was the shared parallel of primary school “Mygeni” in the village of Nepola.

This year's “has shut down the split primary school” Peter Budi” While the split parallel of the school has been closed in 2016 “Mygeni” in the village of Nepole”, Melody Gashi, official of the Education Directorate in the Pec municipality, said.

In the municipality of Fushe Kosovo, there is an increase in the number of students, and as a result, no school has been closed.

But that was not the case five years ago, when the parallel in the school in White Minor was closed. However, the director of the Education Directorate in this municipality, Islam Shabani, shows that this situation was not the same five years ago.

We closed a school five years ago in Fushe Kosovo the divided physical parallel in the Little White. The reason for the closure was a handful of students, by the way. 1 to 9 ʹ, of course, 52 students in 9 parallels (up to 7 students per parallel). The municipality has decided to carry students to school”Bayram Curri “Slatine and vice versa, which is only 3km from the Little Bardit”, Shaban said.

The director of education in the Decani municipality of Qazim Maloku has shown that no school has been closed in its municipality in the last two years, but one closed in 2015 as a result of a small number of students.

There is no school that has been closed in the last two years in the Decani municipality. In 2015 it's the last school to be closed, absent students, and this was the “Gymnazi. Sami Frasher” in the village of Irzniq, high school this one opened in 1997”, Maloku said.

The education director in the county of Skywright Bekim Latifi has said that in the period of two years, as a result of the small number of students has closed the parallel divided in the school village of Izbica “Skender Skyer”

Despite the fact that there are still parallels with small numbers of students in this municipality, they have not been closed, as there are students travelling long distances.

The last two years has closed the divided parallel in Izbica shfmu village, Skender Svander” Vonik for lack of students. Some separate parallels are with no. small students, but because we didn't want these students to travel long distances, we didn't make a decision to close them”, Latifi said.

The Rahovec municipality has said that despite the small number of students, no school has been closed.

“in the municipality of Rahovec this year, but in the last two years no school has been closed. The decline in the number of students is disturbing, but this fall has not caused the closure of the” schools, said Avni Morina, Education Director in Rahovec.

Similarly, in the municipality of the Year, the number of students has dropped, but this has not affected the closure of schools there.

Even though the number of students is dropping in many municipalities and in the municipality of the Year, we have very few parallels with small numbers of students, we haven't closed a school in the last four years”, said the Education Director in the municipality of the Year, Fatbarde Emine.

The Ferizaj municipality, Dragasch, Kline and Suhareka are also among the municipalities that have not closed any parallels of their schools in the period of two or more years. The education directors of these municipalities have made it known.

While, this September, in the municipality of Kamenica the Mesina village school did not open the doors for its students. Only 3 students were left in the area, and the municipality of Kamenica decided that they would be carried to the city school.