Actual problems of education system in the municipality of Gora upon arrival of KFOR

How dangerous is the influence of KFOR on the education system in the Municipality of Gora can easily be understood if data on the network of schools and number of pupils are examined. Before KFOR arrived 6 complete primary schools with 11 separate classes, and 1 secondary economic-commercial school with an extended class of the high school from Prizren had been actively working. In the primary schools 2,345 pupils (Table 5) attended classes and in the secondary economic-commercial school 251 pupils. The teachers of whom 98% had been professionally trained were teaching subjects in Serbian. After KFOR came to Gora the situation in education completely changed. Teachers, parents and pupils were unprotected and bit by bit subjected to various pressures and threats with the aim to eliminate instruction in Serbian in order to introduce the so-called "bošnjački" (Bosniak) language on a pretext that it was the only possible choice for safe education of the children in Gora. To make the trouble worse some individuals in Gora, like in Kosovo and Metohija, acted in such a way that they should be responsible for the consequences before their own people. An excerpt from the Calender Rool Book for the 1999-2000 school years (of the so-called Temporary Government of the Republic of Kosovo) was sent to schools with the state and school holidays of the Republic of Serbia thrown out and with the changed names of schools. Busts of distinguished Serbian public figures were knocked down, new school principals loyal to KFOR were elected, all respectable and decent school employees were exposed to pressure while new workers were engaged without any criterion. Along that line the name of the Primary School "Nebojša Jerković" has been changed, the bust of Nebojša Jerković has been knocked down, Serbian and Montenegrin members of the staff have been expelled from their schools and the