Friday, June 16 - This is how it happens in a society that for thirty years refuses to face its moral, educational and cultural failure...
Did you copy at graduation?
Almost three hundred students?
Even Njegoš???
Well, it's not possible...
What a parade of hypocrisy, the most massive since the literacy of the masses passed to the state...
It's as if no one has ever copied anything in any school.
And it's as if all the children made it to graduation without rewriting.
Analyzing everything Gorski vijenac and Luča microcosm, verse by verse.
With mandatory study of the collected works of Slobodan Tomović and Jevto Milović.
"Look at the wonderful one now seen!
The sun of justice warms the earth..."
Njegoš would say.
And I?
If it weren't for these external graduations, we would never have realized that Montenegrin education was being destroyed by children all these decades, that's all I would have to say.
But, having already mentioned two of the best connoisseurs and interpreters of Njegoš's work and life, I have to add something.
I'm afraid they wouldn't make a name for themselves at this external knowledge test either.
Because three hundred words had to be crammed in:
1. Basic information about Njegoš.
2. Based on the works Night Gathers the Centuries and Mountain Wreath, describe the poetic soul of Bishop Rada.
3. Explain whether Njegoš's emotionality is an advantage or a disadvantage.
Come on, this is about biography and the poetic soul, but three thousand words would be too little for this about emotionality...
And that only if the author of the question would explain to them which Njegoša he was referring to - a philosopher, a writer, a statesman or a bishop...
And which emotions, basic ones such as joy, anger, sadness, fear... or complex ones, such as love, hatred, envy, hope, guilt...
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Saturday, June 17 - Whatever happened, the students answered as they knew, some of them used other people's knowledge from the phone...
But it will not be that this graduation is problematic only because of the students, but - and drastically more so - because of the adults.
Especially those who are imposed on them as role models.
Does anyone else remember that dean who was publicly caught copying twice, and much more than three hundred words...
Or the professor who copied her students' papers by mistake...
Or the first policeman in the country who got more headlines in the media because of accusations that he was a plagiarist than because of all actions in combating crime combined...
That list is long, many adult transcribers are not yet registered.
The children are.
Almost three hundred high school graduates used the phones, they say.
It takes at least twenty minutes to transcribe three hundred words legibly by hand.
To do this from the phone under the bench, the student must bend down at least thirty times.
Or more, if he is not able to flawlessly remember ten words in a row.
Is it realistic that none of the supervisors noticed all this...
So, who's to blame now?
Kids?
It won't be. They weren't born with a mobile...
Someone bought those smartphones and put them in their hands.
Someone allowed them to take them into the classroom and copy them.
And who taught them to copy?
Society, whose leaders came to power by copying.
But not from the neighboring bench, but from the neighboring country.
And not a short essay, but a long Montenegrin history...
And they stayed in power with some similar frauds.
But they didn't steal other people's "knowledge", but something much more tangible.
And they taught others, including children, that it's called coping...
Well, now the children of those children just - managed...
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Sunday, June 18 - Since its introduction, the external high school graduation has been problematic in neighboring countries as well.
In Croatia, ten years ago, writing graduation essays opened up a problem much more difficult than copying.
Drumming, that is. memorizing the professor's oral essays.
- Sensational success of the Croatian education system, based on a sample of a hundred children in Zadar, proved that our pedagogues are capable of serially producing students capable of writing almost identical essays - wrote Predrag Lucić at the time.
After the discovery that at the state graduation, as many as a hundred high school students used the same sentences in their interpretive essays on Balzac's Uncle Gori, suspicions of mass copying were raised.
However, something much worse was established: that the state graduates were trained to write exactly such papers and that they were all trained by the same professor.
- Lucić says - she managed to control children's imagination and train her students not to write an essay as a literary genre that implies freedom of interpretation, but to write it as if they were filling out a form.
Alienated writing that ends free reading, that's how a respected columnist explained the "fabrication of sameness"...
And the professor?
Despite the investigation and public shaming, she remained consistent with her pedagogical invention.
- I guarantee you that my students, who are now in the second grade of high school, when they take the state exam in two years, they will write the same essays again - she said at the end of the affair.
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Monday, June 19 - In 2011, "the practice of alienated writing, which destroys free reading" took place in Montenegro as well.
At the first external graduation, the students mostly chose the topic: "Graffiti - vandalism or art".
One of the guiding questions related to graffiti with inappropriate content was whether it filled students with shame.
- Such graffiti fills me with discomfort and resignation - wrote one excellent and very literate high school graduate.
He got - three!
And equalized with those who answered as if they were filling out a questionnaire.
And he was not the only one, that external graduation was remembered for the victory of mediocrity.
But that was twelve years ago, now it's much better.
It is not, and it is confirmed not only by the big but also by the small graduation.
I don't know if anyone has read what is written on the website of the Examination Center in the instructions for scoring knowledge of the CSBH language at the end of the third cycle of elementary school...
I did, and now I'm going to rewrite it.
- Grammatical and spelling errors should be ignored, unless the goal of the task is to check a specific grammatical or spelling rule.
Not possible?
It is: scheme-for-9th-grade-June-2023(1).pdf...
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Tuesday, June 20 - How lucky that the rapporteur of the European Parliament, Tonino Picula, also took his external graduation... Or had the opportunity to take preparatory classes with the already mentioned professor from Zadar...
From whom, or from what, he copied the conclusions of today's draft report for Montenegro - I have no idea, but if this document is ever re-examined in an examination center, it will receive - a poor two.
- The Montenegrin president, the new parliament and the government should focus on key reforms in order for the country to progress in European integration - stated Picula at the beginning of the report.
If he had at least rewritten the Constitution properly, he would have understood that the key reforms in Montenegro are the following branches of government: legislative, executive and judicial.
The president of the state has absolutely no powers in that matter, if they do not count the decree on the promulgation of already adopted laws.
But he cannot even decide on that decree independently.
He can only choose the time of its adoption, whether he wants to do it before or after the repeated declaration of the Assembly...
Reporter Picul could have chosen which ten causes of Montenegro's lagging behind in the negotiations with the European Union to list in this report.
He chose, among others, the church issue.
- We note with concern the signing of the Fundamental Agreement with the Serbian Orthodox Church amid criticism from civil society and political disagreements - he repeated last year's views of some NGOs and parties.
This year, God forgot about that Foundation...
Reporter Picula is clearly not.
But he did, unfortunately, forget something much more important - the position of the European Union on that treaty.
It was announced by the EU Commissioner for Enlargement two months after the signing:
- I don't think that the signing of the Basic Agreement with the SPC had a negative impact on this year's report of the European Commission on the progress of Montenegro. Addressing that issue can lead to stronger stability...
That's what Oliver Varhelji said in October last year...
Nine months later, Tonino Picula is still worried.
Because of the contract? No matter what, his concern is obviously the return of the opponents of that contract to the Government, despite the electoral will expressed three times after the signing.
That's probably why he confused the pots by supporting the Constitutional Court and the holding of local elections in 14 municipalities on the same day.
Although the Constitutional Court declared the changes to the law that made this possible - unconstitutional...
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Wednesday, June 21 - The decision that Rade Milošević should not be detained was made by the Constitutional Court seven days ago, but he has only been free since today.
While he was in custody, the investigation was expanded "to several more persons", the Special Prosecutor's Office announced.
It's a rude announcement, I didn't manage to understand what I'm most interested in.
And I'm really wondering if someone from the ANB was detained, or at least questioned, after the tobacco truck that Milošević was suspected of in the media "passed through her legs"...
If it turns out that ANB was in fact behind the wheel - Rade Milosevic will be freed...
What if he is convicted?
Nothing, hats off. But not to judging journalists and judges.
Rather than Rad Milošević.
Because he managed to form a large, strong and well-organized criminal group in just one month.
And he makes millions from tobacco smuggling.
And then he collects all the documentation about it, goes to the prosecutor's office and reports - himself...
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