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Saturday, September 05, 2009

Albanian schoolchildren boycott classes in Veles High School

Veles, Macedonia -- Albanian schoolchildren boycotted classes at the "Koco Racin" High School in the town of Veles, Macedonian, A1 television reports.

Parents did not allow their kids to go to school because this year again there will be no school masters to teach in Albanian. The parents are dissatisfied and concerned that this year their kids will have to study their lessons in Macedonian again.

Last year there were only three free-lance teachers in Albanian. Albanian teachers hired in other schools, on the other hand, have not received their salaries and no longer wish to work in the Koco Racin School.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: This is how demands are met, RESIST TO THE ASSIMILATION!; 8:56 PM
Anonymous said...: you know this may be a blessing in blessing in disguise.... why not try home schooling? public school's stink anyway... i know in western europe they allow home schooling and have programs and such... but im not sure in that part of the world; 10:16 AM
Anonymous said...: They need to stay in public schools; home schooling in that part of the world is not a good educational solution. Albanian students need to attend public schools or private schools. Home schooling is a new concept that many European and American families are struggling to keep it up with the school subjects that require labs.; 5:06 PM
Anonymous said...: well albanians living in ex-yugoslavia have to think outside the box and work outside the system and at the same time within the system... europe excepts home schooling.. you have to build a system within a system... a definant system..we have to build ..defiant disobedience.. this is the only way.. its healthy and more peaceful.. we have to say ...we will march on without your help and we dont want your help! .. we will help ourselves.. this should go even AS FAr as economics.. buy from albanians and build support! buy only from only a albanian.. any business ... talk with owners talk with the community! build within and they will come ! peaceful defiant disobedience is the only way... problem is we have to sell this to our own people... i can go further just as for suggestions!; 5:51 AM

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New York Times article published May 21, 1911

"ALBANIAN JOAN OF ARC: Handsome Heroine Takes Father's Place and Vanquishes Turks" – Cetinja, May 21, 1911 - A young girl, whose first name corresponds to that of the given name of the Maid of Orleans, is now being sung in the songs of the Montenegrin bards in the inns and coffee houses in Podgorica. When at the battle of Vranje last week, her father, the hereditary commander of his clan, fell, she immediately stepped to his place and led the Martinajs to victory against the Turks. Aside from the romantic phase of the affair, for Janitza Martinaj (Tringa e Grudes) is very beautiful, the battle is important as showing that the Montenegrins on the frontier had joined with the Albanians. According to a person who is well acquainted with her, this new Joan of Arc is “a tall, handsome, well-developed young woman. All the Albanian women are brave, and are trained from their girlhood to the use of firearms, and in times of war, as there are no mules, they carry the provisions and ammunition for their soldiers and go into the firing line to distribute them.” “And are sometimes killed?” “Yes, often that happens.” Janitza would probably have carried a Martini rifle; or, as many of the Marininis were collected last year by the Turks, her weapon may perhaps have been one of the old-fashioned Albanian rifles, which are handsomely decorated with silver and have very long, narrow barrels. Shooting is almost the only amusement of the young men and women in Albania. Both boys and girls learn to shoot when they are 12 years old. At weddings the parties amuse themselves by dancing and shooting: at christenings shootings is again the principal amusement – firing at large targets for some little prize – and at festivals there is shooting all day long. It’s one of the great difficulties that Turks have to contend with, for it is part of the national life; the people use their rifles by day and sleep with them by their side by night. The custom has grown up with the prevailing insecurity from vendettas at home and border troubles abroad. Physically, the Albanians are the finest race in Europe. Their women are handsome, with dark hair, though their eyes are sometimes gray. To see them walk is a delight. We like to see the ballet in Servia. The first time I saw the Albanians walk it gave me just the same pleasure. Their movements are so graceful, elegance and strength together. Yes, they are a very fine and very gifted race. They are like the Scots in the 17th century, and they will be by and by the finest race, intellectually as well as physically, in the Balkans. If you go to Constantinople you will find that many of the finest men, not only soldiers but also statesmen are Albanians. Their fault, due to their present degree of civilization, is that they cannot grasp the idea of State. The clan is their highest organization; they are unable to see the importance of combining the clan with the higher organization of making a state. But that will come.

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Saturday, September 05, 2009

Albanian schoolchildren boycott classes in Veles High School

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