Minister of Education Jeton Shakiri, personally promised 11-year-old Embla's father, a child with Down Syndrome, that he would solve the problem which is stirring the Macedonian public. Namely, the parents of the other students from the elementary school "Bashkimi" in Gostivar boycotted the classes because they did not want Embla to sit in classes with their children, under the pretext that the girl was aggressive.

Minister Shakiri recently announced on Facebook that Embla will continue to study in class again from today and that she will not be isolated.

"Embla Ademi from Gostivar did not feel the joy of returning to school on the first day of the second semester because, unfortunately, in our society there are still stereotypes and prejudices about people with disabilities. But to my personal satisfaction and the satisfaction of her family today she is back among her classmates and extremely happy to continue learning, progressing and making friends with her classmates. Happiness in Embla's eyes is our shared happiness. Victory of society and true human values. I wish such cases would never happen again. That is why we must continue to contribute to the awareness of children with disabilities. They are no different from others and deserve equal access to quality education as everyone else. "It is a fundamental right," Shakiri wrote.

Ilir Ademi, Embla's father, in a statement for Free Press, says that he is revolted by the fact that his daughter was isolated and not accepted in the educational process.

It is even more frightening, claims Ademi, that 11 mothers of other children have petitioned the principal that their children will boycott classes, if Embla is not removed and does not study in isolation, in a separate room.

- We are used to it, but the revolt has escalated. We have had problems for eight years. She has always been isolated since kindergarten. They justified that in addition to having Down Syndrome, he also has poor hearing and when he wanted to attract the attention of a child and attract him, he extended his hand to him. But do not beat him. And that was the reason why we always had problems in kindergarten. Emancipation needs to be worked on. I hear about some examples in Germany, they behave differently there. We have laws, but we do not work properly, says Ademi, who is a professor of music and who deals with music therapy himself to help other children with Down syndrome.

He says Embla is in the fourth grade and has studied in three classes.

- The peak came and as a parent I could not stand it anymore. My daughter was put to study in shifts, two weeks in one, two weeks in another, two weeks in third grade. The Ministry of Education has a concept for inclusion and schools should be prepared for it, but unfortunately we have such institutions that do not accept these changes very well. So my daughter, from the beginning of the year received an appointed educational assistant from the ministry. But the problem arose in November when mothers of children in the classroom petitioned the principal to take my daughter out of the classroom because she interfered with the teaching process, teasing the other students. That is not true, because my daughter is constantly with the educational assistant from the beginning to the end of the classes and he would alert me if that is the case, explains Ademi.

The situation escalated when, before the end of the first semester, the school management decided that Embla should be with the class for only two or three hours, and the rest of the time to study alone with the assistant in a separate room, a makeshift hall with a stage for performances. The hall was large and poorly heated.

- The hall is without heating and in very difficult conditions. By the end of the first semester I was waiting for these parents to wake up, but that did not happen. So I asked the principal where my daughter from the second semester would study and after she told me that she would study in an isolated hall, I decided not to take the little one to school. Only yesterday I took her because I knew that the journalists would come, so the director put her in front of the cameras to study in the classroom with the other children, says Ademi.