High-Schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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IDENTIFICATION CARDS High Schools in Bosnia - Created by Bosnian Students	IDENTIFICATION CARDS High Schools in Bosnia - Created by Bosnian Students

IDENTIFICATION CARDS High Schools in Bosnia

The including of the schools to ASP at BIH (BIH) started in 1995 when the two schools from Sarajevo (SA) (SA) Elementary school "Skender Kulenovich" and Gimnazija Dobrinja were accepted to ASP and the mass join was at the beginning of the last year when twenty two (22) schools were accepted to the ASP and in the mean time nine schools and 2 faculties passed admission procedure. There have already been thirty five members of U.N.E.S.C.O. schools association on the territory BIH.

This net is going to be spread on the whole territory of BIH in order to establish the cooperation among all the members in the country and to realize the connection and contacts with other members from the whole world depending on interested activity in the schools.

The first project of these schools were defined at seminar in Sarajevo (SA) in December of 1997. The project "Computer proceedings of school newspaper" was suggested by team of coordinators from 15 schools that are on the list of members ASP for Federation BIH and the list is given of the end of this text. By this project it has been planed to make this issue of four copies of mutual newspaper of ASP - schools' Newspaper during this year. The first copy include text which are going to help to introduce the new members of the project. These are identical cords of the participants of the project.

The final work and presentation of the newspaper on Internet is being done in Gymnasium Dobrinja.

Schools members of ASP BIH:

The Railway Educational Centre - Sarajevo (SA)

The Second Gymnasium - Sarajevo (SA)

Gymnayium "Muhsin Rizvic" - Kakanj

Mixed Secondary School - Cazin

Mixed Secondary School - Gorazde

Gymnasium "Musa Cazim Catic" - Tesanj

Mixed Secondary Electrical School - Mostar (MO)

Secundary Electrical Engineering School "Rudzer Boskovic" - Mostar (MO)

Gymnasium "Musa Cazim Catic" - Kladanj

Travnik Mixed Secondary School - Travnik

Mixed Secondary School - Zivinice

Secondary School "Ivan Goran Kovacic" - Kiseljak

Elementary School "Skender Kulenovic" - Sarajevo (SA)

Gymnasium Dobrinja - Sarajevo (SA)

Elementary School - Domaljevac

University Level Educational Institutions:

Philosophic Faculty - Sarajevo (SA)

Faculty for Natural Sciences and Mathematics - Sarajevo (SA)

Elementary Schools are:

Elementary School Tesanj

Elementary School Zenica

Elementary School Orasje

Elementary School Nova Bila

Elementary School Bihac (BI)

Elementary School Mehurici

Elementary School Sarajevo (SA)

Secondary schools are:

Secondary School Bihac (BI)

Secondary School Tuzla (TU)

Secondary School Livno

Secondary School Posusje

Secondary School Zenica

Secondary School Rahic

Secondary School Sarajevo (SA)

DRUGA GIMNAZIJA Sarajevo (SA)

WE ARE AMBITIOUS AND SUCCESSFUL

Druga gimnazija Sarajevo (SA) is a school having a long tradition. It was established in 1905. and numerous generations of presently respected people from the domain of both publicity and culture have completed their schooling here.

A teaching process for 616 students takes place in this building comprising an area of around 5000 square meters. There are 17 classes of mathematical-computer major. During the eighties, this school was of mathematical-computer streaming only, but due to war destruction and devastated equipment, we are not able to follow it in a course of war time. Nowadays, we have a modern computer classroom and, of course, our students ever ready and competent to confirm as in knowledge they do not lag behind their age-mates from all over the world. Thirty five professors are within a teaching process and although we are in possession of a large building, we are still not able to carry out all our extra-curricular activities to such an extent to be entirely satisfied. This is partly due to fact as we are still sharing our school building with another secondary school for which we hope is supposed to be our co-tenant just for this school year since their devastated school building is under the reconstruction.

In order to achieve better and more interesting activities of all our existing school clubs, we are in a need of better equipped classrooms for the following subjects: Physics, Chemistry, Biology, English, French and German language. We also need a better library to enable us to study more domestic and world literature. We need a completely new equipment for our Gym since we are very fond of all sports. We are also very fond of making a newspapers, singing, drawing and painting-and we could say as we are real artists! We are also very successful and keen on conducting various discussions within our Debate Club. We are ambitious, fond of learning and exhibiting our knowledge. Really, we are both good and successful. To which extent? It’s obvious from numerous awards won at the international Mathematical Olympiad: a total of 11 awards pointing out the fact as we have won four of them during the war and immediately after it. We have also participated at the International Olympiads at Physics and Computer science and we were successful ones.

Our School, along with our both professors and students has already undergone three wars and like a Phoenix arises from the ashes and still proceeds.

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL "SKENDER KULENOVIC" Sarajevo (SA)

PERSONAL DATA OF OUR SCHOOL

Our school is situated in the biggest Sarajevo (SA) settlement called Dobrinja. It was built in 1984 and in that time it had 2000 pupils and 99 teachers. Unfortunately, at the very beginning of the aggression on BIH, on 17th of May 1992, chetnics shelled and burnt down our school. The pupils were not able to attend the classes and it was the aggressor’s aim.

However, thanks to teachers, students and the other enthusiasts, we too, put ourselves on the frontline and entered the war against ignorance and darkness with Mrs. Aida Music as our leader, who is today’s and was the principal in that time. Regular teaching started on 1 st. of April ’93 we had completed 92/93 school year.

Our school had 660 pupils who were assigned into 66 classes with 35 teachers in that period. Our classrooms were dark, cold basement and garages.

We worked in those conditions until Dayton Peace Agreement was signed-in November ’95. And since than until even today, the teacher takes place on 5 locations from which 2 were adapted with help of International Red Cross, French Embassy in Sarajevo (SA) and German National Committee for UNESCO. The pupils had great results during the war, no meter on so hard conditions for work. Since 1993 we have had a lot of sections in our school: choir, drama, art and literary section and later on folklore, rhythmics, ecology, football, basketball, volleyball, chess, modallists, computers, photo, film and rifle club. Successful work of this section enabled their members to visit a lot of European countries like Spain, Luxembourg, France, Belgium, Germany, Norway and Slovenia.

On 16th February 1995 the school became a member UNESCO ASP. The rebuilding of the school started under the protection of Swiss and French government in November 1997. The works should be completed before the start of 1998/99 school year. In that year, pupils will finally step into new, brighter and we hope better future.

GYMNASIUM DOBRINJA Sarajevo (SA)

O U R Yesterday

Our yesterday started on 25 May 1993. During the most dramatic moments of our history in part of Sarajevo (SA) called Dobrinja teachers and students from all secondary schools gathered to confirm their right for work and life while Dobrinja was cut off and under siege.

Classes of hope and defiance started to work among the ruins in empty cellars on different locations. Gymnasium Dobrinja began to exist, the first school founded in war. At first there were 330 students who attended the teaching process of general stream. Fully a ware of the situation the teachers of the youngest school in Sarajevo (SA) tried their best and made the greatest efforts using their educational experience in order to keep the teaching process and life without interpretation. It was a miracle and a patriotic act for that generation to continue the teaching process in such horrible circumstances. Work and study in the dark ness and hatred was a privilege for those who decided to oppose to evil. With a feeling that something great happened, the school came into being as life in the difficult and suffering way. The first days of liberation started and the our…

Our Today

All made from yesterday and tomorrow our today is a fight of our school in peace and prosperity. By help of an Italian organization “Sprofondo” the school has been adapted. In the school year 97/98 443 students have attended the school. There are 8 classrooms, a library, exhibition of students art works, computer classroom, 16 classes, 30 teachers and a new mathematical-computer stream.

The students of our school participated at the International Olympiad in Argentina in mathematics, they have won medals at canton and republic competitions at Physics and computer science. They participate successfully at debate club, at ecology, sport, journalism and acting clubs. This school is fully aware of its possibilities and it has won all the challenges in war as well as in peace. Today we showed confirm our fight for country, for justice, for prosperity of young people who are base of the country. Today we showed fight for our tomorrow…

Tomorrow

And tomorrow as director Ismet Salihbegovic said, a new building for the school showed be built. The students will have all the possibilities for teaching process as well as extra-curricular activities and it will welcome all the students who want to join it.

It is going to be a school that will take place in the history of this town because it was founded in the darkness and chaos and has existed through the most difficult time and now is a witness of the strength of human will and heroic spirit.

THE MIXED HIGH SCHOOL CAZIN

ID CARD OF THE SCHOOL

It was one of this typical, autumnal days in the middle of November, when over the sky reigned gigantically dark clouds and through the air blew and blustered sharp calld rave. At times thare would be whipping from clouds jets, turbid dirty rain, cutting at this kind white opaque fogbanks.

Right behind this white curtain, over a small concrete bridge, which is hanging up over a turgid, dim brook, could be seen faintly, wall-contours of the school as it were shrinking and gathering under the enormous sky. Under a big broken roof, covered with a heavy wrinkled dark-red sheet near by them is a big ashen chimney there is two find two rows of giant windows. This windows are used to bring the light into classrooms, there are the only connection with outside during lessons. The wall, near the upper row of windows, is covered with some thick red plates fixed with pins and screws, while an other part under lower row of windows is circled with a simply wall in white. In one corner at with the frontal school side is in a circle a stairway to upstairs.

This entering uses mostly professors and some classes without their own classroom.

There are on this side two entering-doors, two, one for school – leadership and the another for students. From the left and from the right side roof partes are outstanding and declined so they made some kind of an shelter and each of them has its own rule in this very complicate architectonic building. Under the roof is from the left side an crowd black coals and the frontal side is used by our students as a shelter from rain and snow while threeth covers one part of the ground overgrown with green grass very often had a seat in Summer, in some deep shade. The back side was in on kind to differentiate from the frontal side only there is just one door-entering to the heater-room. The door, where we students come trough, the heavy iron door connects a narrow bended and poor shinde hall, with two rows of ironstairs from the both sides. One of the stairways runs to the other classrooms and one part of the buildings where are the teacher-room and a few offices while the another stairway runs to a equipped cabinets.

Along this giant hall in the middle of the school there are good equipped work rooms, where generation by generation had learned the fundamentals and had taken it with themselves into new life. Close to the work-rooms is also a school library, tempting with its inwardly part each of the proper students, but unfortunately it hadn’t given to us possibility to read everything we need for our Bosnian language. There are also many more corners and shelters about what we can write much more.
Close to this well-looking building is a small one called “Montage building”, ordered long time ago, in contrast with his surrounding and is not dovetailed into all around it. Nevertheless, the interior has his own story. In five classrooms the education is attended by economic and commercial-brunch students. It is mostly the womenhood in there. Right in connection with them it’s starting our first love-affair to many of us. I’m still standing under one part of the school roof in this day of December.

I’m watching around me, it’s raining. I’m wondering with my sight over the park on the frontal school side.

I’m remembering of the spring of the day we spent exactly there, in them park, and the right nearby is the bridge. And on this days all of us had gone over it and I’m remembering of something, once open the time somebody had said: The bridges are connecting and disconnecting people. This one has the task to connect us with all this passer-by that are in a hurry to the town Cazinand it is going to disconnect us on this day when we set out of forever me the beatyfulest building Cazin Mixed High School.

Muhamed Beganovic, strudent

GRAMMAR SCHOOL "MUSA CAZIM CATIC" KLADANJ

MY SCHOOL

If you want to come to my school, somebody has to show you the way. Somehow, if sounds simbolical. My school is hidden in a dale, like knowledge. The way to may school goes downhill, because if you want to come on it you have to hastilly diverge from the main street. There is a river near the school. Thousands of drops flows (runs) in one bed. The river is muddy periodically, like our knowledge when
we pace at school, and then become clear and bright, so we do after schooling start uphill to new horizons. Our school with one is own sight, whitness of walls and row of windows, first of all incites impression of order. My school stands strong like someone who knows what does he want. When we come in spacious hall receive us, classrooms is doors along the corridor marked with numbers.

Is that mean we have to start conquest unknown, and so attractive knowledge in that order?
If it is true, one way if long, do we have the strenght, will we be able to pass away withoout stumbles and falls? We wish in instant to come back, but unknown entices us, and we start encouraged with smiles of teachers and induced with eternally hunger for conquest of news, unknown and therefor beloved. And then we are intoxcated by beauty of word, poem, new. We wish to deceant into verses all of our loves, hopes, fears, dilennas and disappointments. We try, and if we fail, we are satisfied with narrating well know poets verses. When we realized that we will not become poets we start to conquest rationla tongible knowledeges. We are intoxicated by logic of mathematics, so fascinated we sun up for a long time, we are extacing the square root, until we become somewhere in sine and cosine and integral. After that we return for chemistry and pyhsics, imagine we have large laboratories and we are going to find out what nobody doesn’t. Someone is last in history. Become lover and prisoner of bygone, mysterious, heroics times, and like he every day fights for one battle.

And so on, till we meet magic of computers and anticipate possibilites. And like every youth, we wish more but it is insufficiently what we have here.

We feel, and we see. Our school is small, modestly equiped, and that is why is seenes like we are enticed to presentiment what we can and what we need. Mirza Fijuljanin, student

MIXED SECONDARY SCHOOL "ENVER POZDEROVIC" GORAZDE

BIOGRAFY OF PROFESOR

ENVER POZDEROVIC
Enver Pozderovic was born on 23.09.1909. in Gorazde where he finished primary school. First two years of comprehension school (High school) he finished in Trebinje and the last two years in Sarajevo (SA). He has been an excellent student and he was released of graduate work. When he finished Comprehensive school he went to Belgrade, where he learned studies of philosophy which he finished on 19.03.1935. Teacher’s examination he pased on 19.01.1941.

After that he went in Zagreb and in the June of 1941 he passed grade of English language. Afters that he started to work as a teacher of foreing language in Sarajevo (SA) and Zagreb. In Zagreb he spent Secound war and during the war he was working as a teacher. In his native town (Gorazde) he come back in 1961 where he continued to teach English and French in General comprehesive, Economic and Technical school. In the mean time he worked as an interpreter till his death. At the late time of his life he’s finished course of Esperanto. Professor Enver Pozderovic fluently spoke: English, Franch, German, Russian, Esperanto, Swedish and Turkish. On his own he started to learn Arabic language. He died on holidays in Bar on 15.05.1090. he is remembered like a good professor and good man. Secondery mixed schoool has his name. Students and professors of this school are happy and proud because their school has the name of one grand man like he was.

Kuljuh Saida i Edisa, students

A BRIEF HISTORYCAL REVIEW OF MIXED SECONDARY SCHOOL "ENVER POZDEROVIC" GORAZDE

This school was established in May, 1958 as Ecomomic school has had 13 generations, wich is about 600 economic technicians employed today all over Bosnia and Hezegovina and Europe too. Center of Secondary schools also included Grammar and Managment schools. It existed until 1992 becouse outbreak of war. This school had marvellous both active in and out of the school. We will be mentioning the Women’s Volleyball team and Theatre group of the Economic school. Before the war in 1992 the school had a heterogenic teacher structure. Although the school ceased working, thanks to the school employers and local community who gave they full support in reopening the school, putting the life into the classrooms once again. Today, Mixed Secodary School (MSS) has four classes of Grammar School (I-IV), four classes of Ecomomic School (I-IV), a class of Teacher-training School and a class of Agricultural School. The school contain ten classrooms including their new modern computer laboratory where students improve their knowledge in this new modern science.

Sanin Mirvic, student

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL "BRACE RADICA" DOMALJEVAC

IDENTITY CARD OF THE SCHOOL

My school is Elemenray School “Brace Radica” in Domaljevac. It was built in 1971. It is situated between the river Sava and the road Samac-Orasje. It is a very nice building in Domaljevac. It includes areas of municipalities Grebenice, Bazik and Domaljevac.
There are 355 students from the first to the light grade. In front of the school there is a nice park with greenness and flowers. Behind the building there is playground for handball and basketball, grassy football playground. Inside the building there are big classrooms, gym the kitchen, the library, teacher’s room, two offices, physics classroom for experiments and chemistry, a big hall with students’ paintings and photographs. During the war the school was damaged but by donations it has been reconstructed. We got the new school furniture and it is now a modern school with central heating. We need books for the library and computer for computer science. During the war the teaching process was going on in bad conditions. Anyway the teachers did their best to help students though teaching process as well as though school clubs. Special programs for holidays were prepared and sport competitions were organized. All those activities helped us to overcome all the difficulties. Every year there are more students who return to their homes.

Tomislav Mijic, student

HIGHT SCHOOL "MUHSIN RIZVIC" KAKANJ

ID CARD OF THE SCHOOL

The High School in Kakanj, as the first secondary school in this mining town, accepted its first students at the school desks in 1959. By 1983 when the school ceased its operation 1660 students graduated from High School in Kakanj and by continuing education at advanced schools and faculties many of these students become famouse and outstanding specialist in their fields (professors, doctors, engineers, economists, lawyers, etc.) Many of them werw and are still now bearers of the economical and social development of Kakanj town.

After a long break a new generation of the students enrolled in the High School in Kakanj just before the war in 1991. The School as a general high school worked without break during whole war and it is considered as a rare school in the area of BIH which did not cease its operation because of war conditions and actions.

From 1994 the School has borne the name "Muhsin Rizvic" after great scholar and enthusiast, the professor of literature from the University of Sarajevo (SA). At present 330 students assigned to 14 classes attend the High School "Muhsin Rizvic" in Kakanj. 20 professors and 2 teachers conduct teaching at school. Teaching mathematics in certain number of classes and teaching. English are carried out by nonprofessional teachers. Life and operation of the School go on in two shifts. The School operates in adequate end proper rooms. The teaching is preformed in studies and specialized classrooms. The School equipment fits the standards and regulations. All teaching rooms are equipped with a TV, graphoscope, "episcop" and slide projector. The classrooms for informatics is equipped with a required number of computers.

Besides regular teaching there are other educational forms in the School. The students form our School attend extra instructions in a few subjects in this way they are ussualy getting prepared for regional, and state compotitions. Drama section, litearary and reciter’s section as well as other sport sections are operating in the School. Appropriate programs prepared by students, sections’ members and their professors on the ocasions of the School’s Day (23rd March) and national holidays are very noticeable.

The School newspaper "Glas gimnazije" has been published for four years and it has been editted and published by the students of our School. The School has been awarded many prizes and praises for its successful work. Before the war the School was awarded the most important prize "Hasan Kikic" as well as the medallion of Kakanj town. The school is good example of a good organization and work in the field of secondary education in Zenica-Doboj canton.

SECONDARY SCHOOL "IVAN GORAN KOVACIC" KISELJAK

INDENTIFICATION CARD OF MY SCHOOL

This will be biography of my school and its portrait, exactly its ID. As every story, every life has own beginning and course and this life has, too. The beginning of this school is Austria-Hungary period, witchz is responsible for construction of this school. School was made by Austria-Hungary authority 103 years ago, and in the beginning this school was Public Elementary school. Later, this Public Elementary school grew to eight years school and then to grammar school, and now this school is High School Center with lots of other schools with different profiles.

School’s building is in the center of Kiseljak near tha mineral water’s spring and so it is one traditional entirety, together today this school’s name is High school "Ivan Goran Kovacic" wich includes High school of Fojnica.

From time to time school was rebuilded, widin and now school has "old " and "new" part. The most beautiful part of the school is "old" part with thick and stable walls with remarkable exterior wich gives beauty to whole building.

There were a lot of generations of young and educated people, who got stable support from this school, for their future life. Four years, wich we spend in this school are like four terrible mounths, but although we want to be here again, to repeat everything what we had before and have a time to do everything what we hadn’t done. Everything what ever we have done and made, will stay here, on school’s walls and they will be eternal witness of our escapades, teacher’s annoyance, but what is the most important, on these walls will stay and "Love". There was too much love in this school. That love was sweet any mystery of writting, hiding and everything what will never be forgotten and it was here in our school.

Remembers from this school flowed and will flow like water from rive, and every generations will talk some new story some new event. We were only leaf on surface of water, which bounds back of sharpy narrows of life, study, knowledge and that leaf grew to stone which is stable on Earth, ready for one new day, jet, in which we can hear songs and see beauty of life. When we are sad, we want to see our old friends from school, which wile be always in our hearts, we want to be childen, pupils and we whant only to write, on the desks "I love him" or " I love her", we want to do nice, simply things, what we could do only in the school.

Because all of that, students time is the best of our life time, and we all like to have good memories on it because it is far away from cruel reality of life and problems of our time. That was "our" time, age of the life that we created, idealized it and hide it in a place where nobody would ever crash it. Except all those subjects we tought in school we also tought to be humans, to be friends, to know how to shake hand to someone and feel the warmth from its hearts. The friendship becomes even bigger during all those school manifestations parties and competitiouns inside the school or beetween different schools. In that way that friendship becomes great, almost and less.

At the end it all works because of a good principal our Ivo Miro Jovic and our teachers that are spending entire worktime trying to give us one part called knowledge. Those men are parts of our schools life.

My journey is coming to an end. I feel wery sorry and as I said before I am not the only pupil who is going to feel that.

Gordana Vujovic, student

SECONDARY ELECTROTEHNIC SCHOOL "RUDJER BOSKOVIC" Mostar (MO)

IDENTICAL CARD

After the war cataclysm we have our building that is completely destroyed. The teaching process has been going on in other schools’ buildings. This school year we are selteed in the Secondary Economic School and this school hasn’t been repaired and there is no heating.

In 1997/98 there have been 406 students in 14 classes with the following streams: electromechanic, electotechnic, technican for computer science and technican for telecommunications.

Working conditions are very bad without laboratories and workschops. By help of donations a computer classroom has been equipped and the computers are conected to Internet.

Due to UNESCO – ASP project the teachers and students will be connected with other schools, will improve teaching process by help of intercultural learning and get the new knowledge of computer science.

THE MIXED HIGH SCHOOL TRAVNIK

SCHOOL ID

School, an inexhaustible topic. Youth, as well as those little older talk about it. Most of youth can’t even hear the word school. However, the adults remember their school days with joy and probably there is not a single person who didn’t hear: "Study, my son. Scholl time is the most beautiful and the easiest period of life. Burden and real pains are coming later." It is true, but it doesn’t seem easy to us. Get up, eat, study, sleep, relax; those are 5 things our most beautiful period of life consists of. But when we think better, we must make some sacrifices, we must accomplish something in our life.

However, the school is and will be the part of us. One will always remember some event that happened in the class, perhaps an unpleasant one; another will remember "the corner" in which stand because of disobedience, the first punishment one got because of playing truant, the first bad mark, but the firs "a". someone will remember the cleaning women that always repeats: "Don’t sit on the desk!", "Don’t scribble on desk!" and other phrases suitable only to school "speech". Most of the affairs from the school days seem inappropriate and what we considered unfair seems completely normal, fair now. And, at the end, if the school were a nightmare would baccalaureates meet each other every five years?

Although all school is alike, each is story for itself when you look a little deeper in its classrooms and history. This is case with our Travnik’s Grammar School. It was established in 1882. The Founders were Jesuits and its primary goal was to prepare candidates for higher catholic studies, but soon after establishing it started accepting other students (non - catholic). The building up of the Grammar School lasted 7 years. The plan for the school was made by, then very famous, architect Ivan Holc. Financial resources for the construction of this huge building were collected in different ways but mostly whish donor’s contributions.

In the beginning the teachers were priests, but later the lay persons were employed. Some famous scientists attended Travnik’s Grammar School: Erik Brandis, Alesandar Hofer, Ivan Kujundzic, Jakov Krajinovic and Kamilo Zabel. At first, it was a classical Grammar School. In 1916 it was acknowledged as a Public Grammar School. Still impressive old building gives of once glorious and happy times its students might have had.

Where to begin from?

Our teacher of Latin would say: "Ab ovo" and we’re already here at the entrance in a hurry to, which knows, which class. To tell the story about everything that is somewhere "inside" is hard. All ups and downs of the students of this Grammar School speak for themselves. They speak about its fame.

All subjects in our school are taught by professionals. Regarding foreign languages our students can choose English, French and German. In our school there are many extra - curriculum activities: math’s, English and physics groups and also a choir whish takes part in many important school celebrations. All groups are very successful and students of our school won many awards at municipal, canton and other competitions.

And for the end we add "little" confused thinking of a Travnik’s Grammar School student who could represent all of us.

ALL PERSONS MENTIONED AND NOT MENTIONED IN THE FOLLOWING STORY AREN’T INVENTED, BUT THE STORY IS

…All around me is black. Just darkness, complete darkness and nothing but darkness. But, Y hear the sound of the leaves laden by the wind. And the darkness is still all around me. Where am Y? Y’ m not so sure that Y heard the leaves. Am Y kidnapped by the aliens? Last night Y watched the x - files on TV. May be they are taking me for interrogation? But Y’ m not going to tell them anything. Flash of light, dazzling light… "Wake up, man, you’re staring at a bull!"(monologue) Y realizes with horror that someone known as a bull interrupted my dream, the first dream after long time. But it’s time to face a new day.

Oh, yes. School. Y can hardly remember the end of this morning’s dream. I wonder if it’s over now. Walking along the halls, armored with thick walls, y’ m thinking about the meaning of the dream (if it has any). Absorbed in thoughts y don’t notice that y’ m at the beginning of hall, again. Dead silence. What has happened? Y’ m looking through the window, but Y can’t see anything. I’m opening the doors of the classrooms. Not a living soon. Sometimes it seems that the was are reflecting the sound of the previously told story. And these walls heard a lot of things in their life. So, that’s it. I hear the echo of my voice and I realize the meaning of that old biblical saying: "in the beginning it was the word." With maniacal beating of my heart Y’ m going downstairs and approaching the entrance door. I’ m opening it whit my shaking hands. Son, why are you staring at a bulb? – Y hear my mother’s gentle voice. I’ m getting up, dressing and going to school. It’s impossible! There’s nobody at school. But the light is on. And finally there are only me and school left.

Is it all going to happen again? Some inner voice says to me: "You fool, look at the timetable!" I remembered that I didn’t have the first class period.

The end

THE RAILWAY EDUCATIONAL CENTRE

IDENTITY CARD OF SCHOOL

If any school has a 1913 as a year of beginning of work well then all of you who will continue with reading will already know that we are going to speak about rich tradition, long age and duration. We started as a Railway workshop during the Austria-Hungarian government.

In 1923 we were officially verified and we take this date as a date of foundation of today’s Railway Educational Centre in Sarajevo (SA). We started with mechanical profession, lockswith profession, mechanics profession. After 1945 we continue with electrician profession and electromechanics.

Railway Industrial School is name which is recognizable even though we are Mixed (technology and professional) school now, because we established the special building to accommodate students who live outside Sarajevo (SA). This type of school started with work in 1950 in Vogosca and it was a second school of this type. From 1958 we were verified as Railway technology school with Railway traffic professions.

In 1980 two school made cooperation and they have formed Work Organization (RO) "The Railway Educational Centre". Today our students who finish this type of school are enabled for all sorts of jobs in conection with traffic professions, bound to necessities of Railway traffic mines, ironwork all over the country as well as mechanics profession GSP, PTT. They were enabled for it by Mixed Electrician mechanic school and Mixed traffic school.

This kind of school include a high standards and cabinet education with the most current teaching aids. With help of other similar school all over the world we want to be better.

Let us include our students’ letter as a little help to all of this what we have already said.

"I do not know who made me to book myself in this type of school me or my parents or someone else, but I know that when I finished my primary school I had not any particular orientation. I booked myself there mostly because this school was close house where I live or may be because we were still at war here in Sarajevo (SA) and all over the BIH and there were shotting everywhere. Now when I think about it I see I did not make mistake because my school is as many others even though it is the oldest in Sarajevo (SA).

In my school first and second year go from 8 o’clock (a.m.) – 13 o’clock (p.m.) so you can see that two classes use a same classroom at different time. Teachers try to teach us as much as they can even though it is sometimes very difficult because we do not learn enough. They usually say that we learn for our sake not school’s and I think they have right.

Finally I can say that in my school you can find a lot of laught stories and marks of course mostly bad marks, but it is essence of school too.

We improve our knowledge through the many school’s section which we have already established. Our teachers help us but we can also give our opinions. The foundation of Newspaper section made me very happy and decided to join the same. For students who are bad in some subjects: mathematics, physic etc. we give extra classes.

It is my attitude towards my school. I hope that we will do sometimes for improvement of our school. Anyhow, I understand that The Railway Educational Centre was my real choise."

Adis Omerovic, student

MIXED SECONDARY ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING SCHOOL Mostar (MO)

IDENTITY CARD OF THE SCHOOL

Electrical Engineering School in Mostar (MO) was established during the period of 1953/54. The school worked in together with Mechanical Engineering School in "2The Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Center"(EMSC) until 1993, the building of the school was situated on the right side of the river Neretva (Mostar (MO) West). The building was bombed during the war by the Serbs. Three years later the Croats government completely destroyed the building of the school with the intention to build a hotel on that place. The school year 1993/94 was organized in the building of the Fourth Primary School. It started to work on the 21st March 1994 and this is the date of the renewal of the Electrical Engineering School.

The name of the school is "Mixed Secondary Electrical Engineering School". The school was working in the building of the Fourth Primary School until 15.06.1996 when Electrical school moved in renewal building of VI primary school and it still work in that building. Mixed Secondary Electrical Engineering School contains of two schools in it’s structure:

a) Secondary Electrical School (IV grades) the school consists of the following professions:
- electrician for computers technique and automatic;
- electrician of electronic
- Electrician of energetic.
In the school pupils are educated for four years and they can continue their education at the University or they can work as electricians.
b) Electrical Vocational School (III grades) there are the following professions:
- electroenergetic
- electroinstallation
- electrician for the telecommunication
- radio RTV mechanic.
Pupils in this school are educated for three years (except RTV mechanic they are educated for four years). When they finish this school they can find a job in economy and they can improve their knowledge to because and expert in the vocation (V grades).

During the school year of 1997/98 in Electrical Engineering School 200 pupils were registered and in Electrical Vocational School 170 pupils, or all together 370 pupils in our school. There are 20 pupils who are not regular members of our school but they only take exams at the end of the school year. They are not full members of our school. There are 17 professors in our school and 22 professors who are not full members of our school then there is manager, secretary and two maintenance workers.

We do not have enough room for all the classes in our school but in spite of that our pupils have different activities during their free time:

Team for physicist
Team for mathematics
“Civitas” team

Internet team
Basketball team
Football team
Team of journalists

The "Civitas" team made the success last year. The team was first on regional competition and fourth on the state competition. Many pupils from our school are members of sports clubs in our town. There are: a football club "Velez"; basketball clubs "Lokomotiva" and "Bregava"; a handball club "Galeb"; a karate club "Student"… Our pupil Ernesto Maric (IV grade) is world champion in carate in his category; he won the competition in December 1997 in Hungary.

GIMNASIUM "MUSA CAZIM CATIC" TESANJ

PERSONAL CARD

The school was founded in 1961.as an independent educational institution and was named "Musa Cazim Catic" Tesanj. In 1971. it joined with the School of practical training under the name HIHG-SCHOOL CENTER Tesanj. With the end of the academic year 1984/85 the Grammar School ceased its activity. At the beginning of 1993/94 the school was reestablished together with the Medical school under the name "Musa Cazim Catic" Combineed School, Tesanj.

In 1997/98. A new independent school was founded under the name "Musa Cazim Catic" GRAMMAR SCHOOL, Tesanj.

The school has total 376 students, 118 male, and 256 female. It has 12 classes of classes of which: 4 first-grade, 2 second-grade, 3 third-grade and 3 four-grade.

It is important to embassies that 2 classes have 39 students each. Due to the lack of space it is imposible to devide them into more classes. Students-commuters are 239, students living at their parents are 363, students-orphans are 9, students on scholarships-none.

The lectures are being delivered in 7 classrooms, and the school building is shared with two other schools. The school has no gymnasium nor any premises for the classes of physical training. The school does not have the space for free activities, so this kind of activity is being performed in the evening hours or on Saturdays. Due to the lack of space these activities take place in the nature if the weather coditions allow so. The school has a computer room though the equipment is out-dated (the computers were bought 8 years ago). The heating arrangement pose a problem, too, since the boiler is oil-based which is rather expansive.

The school together with the High Technical school issues a bulletin, "Srednjoskolac" occasionally. The classrooms are poorly equipped which is mainly the outcome of the wartime. The number of school-employees is 31 of which 18 full-time and 1 part-time professors, 4 associates, 2 teaching associates, and 6 others.

THE MIXED HIGH SCHOOL ZIVINICE

IS THERE ANY BETTER SCHOOL THAT MINE

Is there any better school that mine?

When I passed beside her for the first time, in spring, I was enchanted with her exterior. There were cut fence of the plants, rouses, clean pathes, unusual schruebery, green grass without rubish around her. And, inside, when I came in, I was entachted with transparency, clean and tasty painted walls, flowers in the hall so beautiful and many years old that I have never seen anywhere. Students were swarming but everything had its place. When I came into the classroom I saw a lot of beautiful flowers at the windows. I thought: "This is house of flowers". I was offerred to come in research of the past of this school and Zivinice schoolling. This is what I’ve found out.

Till 60 s of this century, in this post-war town, there wasn’t any secondery school and children went to school in Banovi�i and Tuzla (TU). Some of them went to school by train, some of them went by bus but many went on foot. I didn-t find out who gave the idea to build secondarz school in Zivinice. Gimnasium was built.

At that time there wasn’t any interest for schoolling but there were a lot of grammar school boys and girls. After seven-eight years that school couldn’t contend needs of inhabitants. School become too narrow. Zivinice authority, in 70 s decided to build another school, not only Gimnasium but school for other occupations, too. Factory “konjuh” needed carpenters, technicians; metllic industry "MPI" needed mechanics, locksmiths, tinkers; hotel “Konjuh” needed hosts and etc. the new school was called "Secondary School Centar". I was told that in whole BIH there were three very very modern schools and one of them was this, mine. There were cabinet scholling, modern room for physical culture. Grammar school boys, carpenters, mechanics, technicians were educated in it. In 80 s a need for more occupations appeared. Gimnasium was nullified and hosts (5 generations), ecology technicians (3 generations), interpreter assistants (3 generations), economic technicians (1 geration), salesman (2 generations), bricklayers carpenters (2 generations) were educated. Later, in this school, four kind of schools were established: electrical engineering, mecanical, agricultural and woodworking oues. Later in 1995/96. Gimnasium was established again. Then this school was called "Mixed Secondery School Zivinice". Number of classes was raising every year.

The least there were 42 classes. From 1500 to 2000 students. I was told that before the war this school was the most famous school in Tuzla (TU) area. Many students who were among the best students in Tuzla (TU), Sarajevo (SA), Beograd and Novi Sad come out from my school. They were coming back to their town as experts.

They are directors, lawyers, professors, economists, engineers. Students of this school showed that they were good masters and many of them went to other counties and got on well because this school got them ready for life. But there is something very ugly in my school today. I was disappointed when I had found out how it was some time ago, and today there isn’t anything of that modern school. There aren’t computers (except two old ones), sport means of instruction, electrical equipment, agricultural and machnical equipment.

We don’t have musical instruments, microphones, cassete-recorder and etc. I asked school director wath had happened, there was and now there isn’t. he explained me that in 80’s scholling was in very bad material situation. During the time means of instruction were wore out and new ones weren’t been able to get. And then the war started. We know that Europe schoolling is very modern. But we’ve still learned using old methoods of pedagogics. I came back in the past again. There were lot of different sections in our school. Zivinice people are good sportmen and most of them passed throught our school and sport room: handballers, volleyballers, footballers, boxers, karatists. We are proud of Amir Aljic (handballer in representative team of BIH), Elnur Siocic, Dzevad Mandzic (boxers). Our students are involved in sport of our caton and further.

Our student Eldar Cokic who was a champion of physics in BIH. He s attended world olimpiada two times. Now there are 49 classes and 13 kinds of accupation. There are 1554 students. This number involves 374 students-refugees (1/4). There are 216 students without father, 24 without mother and 24 without both parents. 1025 students have to commute to school. In this school employed people have got grat heart for displaced people and refugees and to those who came back from abroad. I give you these facts that you see how our professors, director, pedagogue and others work with very difficult students categories. In this school musical, dramatic, recital section, section for decoration of school work very succefully. Literary and newspapers sections are the best. We follow everything. We go through each pore in our school life.

We invite painters to help us. We write our wall papers. We are so proud to see students to push around wall papers. We’d like to have a computer and to print our works. We wouldn’t like to write and drow on paper any more. Anyway, I am proud of my school, professors and all who worked in it.

Tulumovic Nedzmiha, student

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