Vujović: The students did not participate as representatives of the school, but as part of the SUBNOR organization

Sanja Vujović, a history teacher at the "Hunting Partisan Detachment" elementary school in Cetinje, said that the students of that school, in laying wreaths with representatives of SUBNOR Montenegro, on May 9 in Podgorica, did not participate as representatives of the school, but as part of the organization of SUBNOR -a.

The management of the school in Cetinje previously initiated disciplinary proceedings against the teacher, and the disciplinary commission will investigate whether she allegedly abused the students for political purposes, by participating in the laying of wreaths with representatives of SUBNOR and participating in the program to mark the Day of Victory over Fascism.

Vujović rejected those allegations.

"Dear fellow citizens, colleagues, friends, parents, students, all Montenegrins who consider themselves anti-fascists, all of you who unreservedly stood by me and supported me in this gesture, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. I am definitely someone who is against any see politics in the school and I claim and firmly stand behind my procedure that no child was abused for political purposes. All children had the consent of their parents to participate in the program of laying wreaths at the memorial to the fallen fighters for the freedom of Montenegro. We are an anti-fascist country, even if it says so in the Constitution, so let's act like it. All of Europe celebrates Victory Day over fascism, why can't we," Vujović announced on her Facebook account.

If someone understood the peaceful walk dedicated to the victory over fascism as an anti-government protest, that's their problem, said the teacher.

"Please avoid me and these well-educated and smart children, whose parents are intellectuals, because if you are lucky (I am not raising my rating) every school should have the obligation to teach children anti-fascism, because as the Constitution tells us, it is the future the path of our country. Even if the children did not participate as representatives of the school, but as part of the organization of SUBNOR, I had a moral and professional obligation to inform the director of the school about the planned activities. Once again, I want to thank all of you, who primarily defended my profession , me personally and these children who just walked with dignity and showed that Montenegro will always be and remain anti-fascist as long as there is a generation like them. I am proud of them," she concluded in the announcement.