Request for 100 euro extensions for teachers, Parents' Council reacts

The council through a post has said they disagree that an advance of one's rights is required at the expense of a group of society in this case of children.

Full announcement:

REAGUAGE THE DEATH SBASK

The head of the Council of Parents and Pristina has analysed Pristina's recent statement of the Education Union (SBASHK), with which they threaten failure to learn unless additional payment is made (of 100 euros a month) for teachers, as well as for health staff and police.

We estimate the guaranteed legal right that each civic or group organization of interests has to seek protection or fair advantage, but we do not agree that this is done at the expense or damage of another party, much less at the expense of a society group or very sensitive sector, which is children (so their education and education).

As parents, we believe that we have the right to make a judgment of such consistent statements that do not sound reasonable, that each school year mentions strikes for the only purpose - the material benefit of teachers. No, the teaching contribution (of several decades) cannot be compensated for! Dignity and social respect are at the top of individual self - fulfillment!
Our right to make this judgment stems from contributions and continued assistance in developing the learning process, but also because we parents are neither paid nor asked to be paid for everything we do for our children and our country. We believe, as we have learned from countries with hundreds of years of history, that statehood is essentially volunteering, self - sacrifice and unconditional civic and human commitment. And education should be at the forefront, not the tail of society.

We estimate that at this time of pandemic, when everyone together: Minister of Education, Municipal Education Director, School Directors, Educators, Technical Staff, Parents and Children, but also civil society and international organisations operating in Kosovo, have been mobilised and making valuable contributions so that the lesson will not be stopped and the children will not suffer, the SBASK's statement is neither shot nor proper, as in shape and much less in content.
Schools are not, and they cannot be educational institutions where everything depends on the teacher, nor are manual teachers. To have a functional teaching process, it certainly takes the commitment of all parties, which teachers know very well. So the effort to make monetary value all, when in fact it's neither possible nor objective, transforms the invaluable teaching contribution into a fruit-food market where “knowledge and education were sold by kilogram ()”.

So, as parents, we think that with these statements, the SBASK is violating children's right at a severe and abnormal time, they're rising above the institutional hierarchy in the country, and, if this continues, the balances of co-operation and co-ordination within schools will be irreparably damaged.
For these reasons, we ask the SBASK to reflect and refrain from these declarations in pandemic time, but also electoral political times, so that if they have the will and want the good for both teachers and children, they can co-ordinate their actions with all sides of interest and not unilaterally set deadlines, open and close the school year itself, which clearly sounds blackmailing, non-legitive or institutional.

And we never forget the self - sacrificing commitment of the teachers, whom we regularly declare: in class, in school, at meetings of the Guide and Task Force Councils. But neither do we deny the contribution of technical staff, school principals, other aid personnel nor the Municipal Education Directorate, with all the staff, which in Pristina have done excellent work. He saw the students, with their parents or their caretakers, all this structure, and the entire educational-assertion process, there would be no need or meaning!

Finally, the Pristina Parents' Council, with all its capacity and which is determined to add, expresses full willingness to help and support, not to separate!

Our children's right to education and education doesn't do, and it can't, deny!