Kamenica, Dayless and Less Students

But since the post-war years began to deteriorate to this extent, there are still students who follow the lesson in it. Thirteen students in the Kamenica municipality continue to learn here, the school that parallels the one in Hogosht. This number is under the number of teachers and school workers, which reaches 16. Lack of basic conditions for learning, but also the interactive and sound competition for students, is worrying the new Kamenica chairman, Stayn Kastrati. This came out to see the situation closely and to discuss a better solution for children and educators.

However, he says two problems have been presented to him in this regard. This phenomenon in the Kamenica municipality is very large, school like this is a third of schools that have fewer than 25 students, I'm talking about school and not class. Here are two problems. The first problem is the legal infrastructure of how it is regulated, where children from the first grade to the fifth grade have the precise distance to where they can develop the learning process. And the second problem is that the number of teachers that actually turns out to have more teachers”, Kastrat said. A solution is thought to be to provide transportation for Lisocka students and send them to the nearest school under better conditions, such as the one at Hogosht. However, even if this solution is reached, according to Kastract, the problem remains to accommodate teachers who may be unemployed. Kastrati indicated that according to an analysis they have done with coming to local government, it turns out that of 38 schools the amount of Kamencia has, there are only five needed. Because the number of students has decreased as a result of the large evacuation of residents from this municipality.

For me, the most important and primary focus is how children have to develop the learning process, how they've developed learning, which is where we can't even afford to lose generations where there's only one student in class or they're in combined learning, first grade for example and fourth grade. The goal and plan we are looking for in the process of learning to have healthy competition, interaction and learning better”, Kamenica's first Kosovo Presis has said. He also said they would go with concrete plans for resolving the issue of parallel schools, and the combined ones where there are first and fourth grade students, or similar combinations within a classroom, to the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MASHT).

And, because they're interested in Kamenica being a model or a pilot project for other municipalities as well. And we're also using it as a policy as a new government that when teachers are retiring we're not hiring new ones, if we have teachers who don't have full standards, we're trying to meet them, and if I'm not wrong, we've had nine cases where we haven't hired others that I think even here, in other similar municipalities, there's been a little problem with parties, the issue that their members wanted to hire in this regard are not interested at”, Kastret said. Shutting down teaching at school “Skenderbeu”, in Lisocka, is not being welcomed by the teachers, whom the chairman says are aware they are concerned because they fear for their jobs. One of the teachers of this school, Naser Krskei, told Kosova Preris that they are opposed to breaking school education, but acknowledged that solutions are needed for school conditions.

I don't think that's the solution because there are students here who travel more than 5km to come here to school so in winter conditions we know how dark it gets and where I know it and get the student left-hand class in another part of the municipality actually go through the dark in the house... we're not really in a location like that... whoever's not today we don't have even have the function before, and I believe we've succeeded 11x> In contrast with this teacher, the village's representative, Fadil Zuzaku, who also complains about the performance of teachers and also shows grief over the danger facing the students because of the miserable conditions of the school.

The situation in this school is very miserable, and I welcome the chairman and his initiative that has been the day before and has seen the situation and where students learn, but I don't know. This road doesn't fit educators, school inventory is without doors, no locks, glass, no water. ...Woy don't drink look, the water's impossible is consistent... School and hall are in ruins and students are in danger, lots of halls are glass, and students are playing ball through glass with sides of what's at stake. This supports the idea of providing transportation to students until the solution was more appropriate to regulate the conditions of the village school. The problem with parallel school branches in villages, which have few students as well as combined classes, does not affect the Kamenica municipality alone. According to August statistics, there are 311 schools like these, but there are no accurate data on how many small schools, such as schools that have more teachers than students. The director of the Kosovar Centre for Education (KEC), Dukagjin Pupovci, told Kosovo that last year alone in Pristina have worked 22 such combined parallels in villages, where in one class they have also learned upper and second-class mothers and other non-good combinations, according to him.

And we have similar situation in the Gjakova municipality, the Pec municipality, the Prizren municipality so there are situations like this and there may be other municipalities. And now the problem with these kids is that these aren't actually able to compare with someone else because they're in classrooms where it might happen to be the only student of a certain age group and it's not just about socialism, but it's about that healthy competition that needs to be developed between students”, Pupovci said. According to him, with the regulation of the road infrastructure in Kosovo teaching through parallel classes in this form is out of reach and there is no need for the existence of such schools.

Of course, this is also connected to the central level of the finance formula for the Ministry of Education in this case, and a lot of municipalities are doing what they're learning more than they're allowing formula, and then they're trying to pay from other sources that are providing them at the municipality level, often for votes not to confront anyone especially at the time of the elections, but I think it's not a sound policy because we have to consider that the number of children in Kosovo is constantly being reduced because of the reductions of the naturalties, and Pov has said every year to show that 500 students in the first class.

This policy, according to him, should come to an end and other ways must be found. One of them says that it is to stop hiring new teachers because each year 3 to 5 percent of teachers retire. According to the funding formula for the distribution of education grants, a teacher is paid for 27.5 students in flat areas as long as 17.5 students in mountainous areas. Pupovci says that the continuation of parallel school branches where there are fewer students than teachers should continue only in areas that have difficulty transporting even in winter seasons, such as Rugova areas. A large part of the new schools in Kosovo have been built during election campaigns, and as a result of electoral promises in Kosovo. Pupovci claims that education was used by politics to generate votes, and in this form schools without any plans are opened for the number of students they will have or the way education will develop. And if there is no solution to this problem until September of this year, Lisocka students will continue to study under the smell of animal waste and lack of basic learning conditions. An answer about a possible solution through new state policies, Kosova Prees, has also called for August, but officials of this minister have not responded.