Kosovo's Parents' Council: If they don't open schools on October 3rd, we're going to unregister the kids.

And we're getting some positive information that some schools are going to say today that they are opening, that gives us hope that the strike will end because it has been very harmful, as well, at the most unfortunate moment, the worst I had told Kosovo from the post-war. So, we welcome her conclusion and we call again for the strike to be interrupted as soon as possible, where on October 3rd we have all the children in schools”, he told IndexOnline/

The SBASK has decided to release and has given the right to teachers to decide whether to continue the strike or not. Some schools have already come up with the decision to continue the strike, but according to Demit any continuing strike sends to extreme measures.

This issue is decentralised by the SBASK, so it has given you the right to have schools assigned with great advice where those schools make a decision to continue teaching or not. For this we cannot judge the organisation and decentralisation of the education union's decision making, but for us there is no valid reason even to have started this strike, and we consider that there should not be such a strike in the education system in Kosovo, where schools are completely closed and indefinitely. Any continuing the strike just brings greater consequences, and it would make it even harder to get students back to school. He needs to think about the future and not insist on the current situation”, the Demi follows.

Mayor Jeton Demi stressed that they will seek out children from school if they do not open schools Monday, according to him, this extreme measure is a sign of revolt, as there is no other measure left.

If we on October 3rd don't see schools opened, wide and wide in the absolute majority across Kosovo, we will call on all parents to take all measures to protest, whether with physical presence in schools, more gears, even with children's deregisteration from the school system, an expression of revolt that is extreme but there is no other measure left for us because all the tools from us have been used and the dialogue we've tried over and over and over again, argued, explained. Protests were held, but no work was done. So we have the last one left that a depreciated educational system that doesn't welcome our children then we only have to completely retire and take this demonstration measure by which it will depreciate and collapse the entire educational system”, he points out.

He made it known that the government has degrees of irresponsability.

“We've said also directly in our official communications that we've had in common and government institutions that full and inept strike is very extreme, unreasonable, and total damage goes to children and parents and doesn't go to the Government. I think it's been an extreme measure from the union and a degree of irresponsability by the Government”, Demi announced.

Although the strike continues and family members are forced to unregister children, Demi indicated that there is no other way left and that schools should be closed because they do not function without children.

We don't have what, schools will be left without students, those schools should be closed then and that staff doesn't have to function or exist in working relations. Since schools are not performing the services for which they were created and because they are being denied constitutional right unilaterally and unjustly to children, then children are also being forced through parents to take this measure. (5) To get back to zero, young we think about the educational system, to think about elections and opportunities that don't happen again, because parents are at the limits of despair, that we see for mass flight from the country, due largely to the lack of hope”, he said.

The SBASK strike council has called on membership to approve the proposal for the suspension of the strike by January of next year, and for educators and students to return to school on 3 October.