Pristina Education Director: Minister Nagavci met teachers to give party lectures

However, Musmurati, though not present at the meeting, says Nagavci met teachers to politicise about the warned strike and give party speeches.

I welcomed today's meeting of Minister Nagavci with Pristina teachers, even though I couldn't be present. Education is the subject that exceeds party interests and must unite local and central actors for the common good. In the spirit of this cooperation, as the Director of Education offered our assistance in organizing the <x1 session.

To my surprise, I realize that instead of focusing on the educational policies that we should together develop, Minister Nagavci today met teachers, among other things, to politicise about the warned strike. Perhaps I should have imagined it; such a meeting is being called at the last moment, after the announcement of a general strike in education”.

Among other things, Musmurat says such meetings with the minister would have to be made to talk about the future and not to justify their past or ill-government.

According to her, teachers, Pristina parents and students know the state of education and do not need party speeches.

I'm sorry that every meeting on paper aimed at informing the ministry's new policies and social dialogue, in reality, is gathering and legalizing. Teachers, parents and students in Pristina know the state of education. They do not need lectures and morals on past, local or central governments, because the situation speaks for itself”.

The time is to look forward and talk about the future we need to build together. Of course, only those who have vision can speak for the future, not those who want to reason on their past or their ill-governance. Pristina is the best place where we can start living this vision together, and education is the most relevant theme”.

Education should unite us. I am willing, as today, with the team leading the Education Directorate, to offer co-operation for a real dialogue in improvement and depoliticisation of education. But the ability to allow abuse of trust and these dialogue and co-operation platforms to be used to convey party messages that create divisions and send us back. The road ahead of education in Pristina seems different”, Musmurati wrote on Facebook.