Representatives of the Educational Community requested the return of personal and professional dignity.
"That a satisfied educator should not be a means, but a goal, to stop intimidation, conditioning and evaluations, because only at the place where force ends, morality begins, and our profession itself is based on the ethics of the authorities towards us and us towards the children," said is from today's "Lesson 3" protest in front of the building of the Ministry of Education and the Institute of Education.
The average salary in education is 485 euros, and the average salary at the state level is 516 euros, the Education Association noted.
They also stated that in the average case, an educator with a family of four lives in a poverty zone and as such cannot fulfill his work obligations in full capacity or be a role model for the youth.
Especially, they point out, if he is forced to do additional jobs in catering and the like.
Krsto Vuković said that there was not a single answer to their requests, although, he notes, they had sent them some two years ago.
Among them is a 25 percent salary increase. Commenting on the agreement between the Ministry of Education and the Union of Education on a nine percent salary increase next year, and another three percent a year later, he characterized the increase as miserable.
Speaking about the work of the Trade Union under the administration of Zvonko Pavićević, Vuković noted that "they did everything to do nothing".
"They massacred the status of educators in Montenegro," he said.
He assessed that Predrag Ražnatović, the official of the Education Union, should have resigned because he said in yesterday's announcement that he had been silent for years and did not want to disrupt the union's unity.
Congratulating Pavićević on his retirement, Vuković said that the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption found that he did not declare his assets, but that he did not know if he was punished. A banner with the question "Are you ashamed?" was placed across the street from the building.
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