At the start of the 1991-1992 school year, Serbian police blocked ethnic Albanian students from entering many school and university buildings. By January 1992, most high school and university education was taking place in private homes. Many elementary and junior high school students could still use parts of their old buildings, but even in those cases the administrative structure became an unofficial parallel system. About 70 of the students fled from the countryside to Pristina. Classes in each subject last for 30 minutes, and the maximum time spent at school by any one student is less than four hours.
Students sit shoulder to shoulder on benches and appear to study hard.
Bitterness over loss of school buildings to the dominant Serbs runs deep. We were forced to go and study under a different curriculum, but we opted out. We were forced, we resisted, and that's why we're here. Just a Trigger' Nysret Simnica, a teacher at Gjin Gazulli, said it is more complicated than that. That's not true.