The former principal of “Aca Milosavljević” Elementary School in Rušanj, Slavko Bogavac, was dismissed from his position on August 28. Just one day earlier, he extended the contracts of employees working on a temporary basis who feared losing their jobs due to their participation in a class boycott. He even hired two teachers who had previously been fired from the Fifth Belgrade High School and “Knez Sima Marković” Elementary School because of the strike.
After 11 years, Bogavac says he was relieved of his duties because of his support for the staff, who had temporarily boycotted classes during the previous school year. Shortly before his dismissal, he learned that officials were preparing to replace him, and he decided to save the jobs of colleagues with temporary contracts who were at risk of being fired.
“The decision for my dismissal arrived on August 28, but I extended my colleagues’ contracts a day earlier in an urgent procedure. Nineteen of them received a contract extension until the end of August 2026,” Bogavac told Nova.rs.
Before he was relieved of his duties, Bogavac also hired two teachers who lost their contracts at the Fifth Belgrade High School and “Knez Sima Marković” Elementary School.
“They were fired because they participated in the class boycott. I recently posted on a teachers’ group about the staff we were missing at our school, and they responded. I immediately gave them a job.”
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After his dismissal, he went on sick leave, and now he is preparing to file a lawsuit against the Ministry of Education.
“I work at the school as a Serbian language professor, and I will return to that position after my sick leave, at the end of September. I will file a lawsuit against the Ministry of Education. They sent me a dismissal notice that I had no right to appeal or object to, which is illegal. By rule, they should first send a list of the measures that were violated and provide a deadline for them to be rectified. However, that didn’t happen,” Bogavac explained.
He points out that a new principal was appointed to his position, a colleague who worked at another school, also in Rušanj, and who was against the blockades, class boycotts, and strikes from the very beginning.
“I hear she has already started with threats and intimidation. The atmosphere at the school is terrible; the staff doesn’t accept her; even the reception of the first graders was somber. My colleagues don’t want the new administration; they supported me completely, just as I supported them. During the strike, I didn’t want to pressure them; everything was as they decided. After all, I was just the first among equals there,” Bogavac emphasized.
He notes that plans for his dismissal began back in December of last year.
“The teachers at my school hadn’t yet finalized grades then, and pressure from the Ministry began immediately. We had a boycott for only eight days, but the strike—that is, 30-minute classes—lasted longer, for a few months in the second semester. Only one colleague worked 45-minute classes. They decided to dismiss me because of my support for the students and the staff. On August 8, the Ministry sent an inspection to the school during a period when we weren’t working, when we were on summer break. However, I didn’t go on vacation all summer; I was at school almost every day because the administration works constantly. That day, at 8:22 in the morning, they announced that an inspection would come. The practice is usually to send an announcement and then come three days later. The inspector, however, called the school secretary that same morning and showed up at 10:30. That inspection lasted an unusually long time, more than 15 days, a duration not even seen at ‘Ribnikar’ after the tragedy.”
He worked at this school as a principal for 11 years, he points out.
“I have the highest ratings; the school is functioning well, and the staff is united. We functioned like a family. Even before the inspection was over, I knew who my replacement would be, which has never happened in any school before. My replacement is a colleague who worked at another school and was one of only five teachers in her staff who worked 45-minute classes the entire time,” Bogavac says.
This school is, unfortunately, not an isolated case. The Fifth and Ninth High Schools in Belgrade, “Jova Zmaj” in Novi Sad, the Mladenovac High School, and elementary schools “Pavle Savić,” “Ivo Andrić,” “Đura Daničić,” and “Banović Strahinja” are just some of the educational institutions where “unfit” principals were dismissed in recent days.
We would like to remind you that Minister of Education Dejan Vuk Stanković recently stated that in the past school year, 75 school principals resigned for various reasons, and as many as 25 principals were relieved of their duties based on the findings of the educational inspection, which the minister did not explain.
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