VIDEO | Mother from Skopje in tears for sexual violence in elementary school: Classmates touched my daughter on the genitals
The director of the school said in a telephone conversation with "Sloboden Pechat" that the whole situation is "theatre" and that "seven-year-old children cannot be sexually harassed."
The mother of a first-grader in a Skopje school tearfully claims in front of the camera of "Sloboden Pechat" that her daughter is being sexually bullied at school by five boys-classmates, who violently touched her genitals, and earlier in an isolated case they pulled her by her clothes, from which the girl had red marks around her neck, which later turned blue.
The mother claims that at her daughter's school there is constant silence, minimizing and pushing under the carpet the problems with any kind of violence, and the main obstacle is that when it is reported, no one does anything. Such a situation makes the mother feel outraged, misunderstood by the school, but also shocked by the inertia and lack of interest in acting urgently on such a sensitive matter.
After the mother reported the case to the school, the teachers signed a statement that there was no such thing, that is, that there was no violence in the school.
The only reason why "Sloboden Pechat" does not publish the identity of the mother and the name of the school is that in such a way the victim, who is a minor, would be more closely identified and in such a way there would be a danger of being double victimized.
The parent is shocked that the school administration has not even convened an extraordinary parent meeting for this scandalous event, at the height of the declarative efforts to prevent violence in schools.
Although she reported the case in the most transparent way, she talked to everyone in the school in the cry for help and education of the classmates who are exposing the first grader to bullying, she came across a wall and pushing the object under the carpet.
The decadence in pedagogical values and the inefficiency of the professional staff in this school culminated when one of the teachers in communication with another parent told her that "their girls are not flowers to be smelled either", that they are "more advanced and provocative" with their appearance. It is about girls aged six years.
The parent is resigned to the situation she is in, her child being a victim, her report being perceived as "theater".
The director of the school said in a telephone conversation with "Sloboden Pechat" that the whole situation is "theatre" and that "seven-year-old children cannot be sexually harassed."
On the e-mail address that the Ministry of Education and Science opened, the case was also reported by the girl's father, but nothing has been done, even though ten days have passed.
Meanwhile, the parents are considering expelling the girl from that school because they are aware that there is no ear there to hear their calls to protect their daughter.
Although we officially requested answers from the school and the Ministry of Education about what they did after the explicit reports, we did not receive any answers.
