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The Institute of Education has announced the scandalous content of the questionnaire that was distributed to ninth-grade students of Podgorica Elementary School Štampar Makarije.
In the offered questionnaire, the students were expected, among other things, to answer questions such as whether they agree that life was better in families when it was known who was the boss in the house, whether homosexuals, prostitutes and drug addicts deserve to die of AIDS, whether they agree that there is nothing worse than a man who cries, does a good wife always listen to her husband, do they agree that suicides should not be buried where normal people are buried...
As they said from the Institute for Education, all projects, extracurricular activities, and even student surveys for the purposes of preparing graduate, master's, doctoral and professional theses, should be approved by the Ministry of Education, and after receiving a positive expert opinion from the Institute for Education.
Since the beginning of this school year alone, the Institute has given its opinion on 72 letters containing 14 requests for the implementation of research by students and postgraduates, which are implemented in educational institutions. In giving an expert opinion, the Institute for Education helped to improve the research instruments in terms of methodology and content and to be functional for the realization of the research project - they stated with the conclusion that the disputed "research" did not go through the usual procedures, and therefore should not have been implemented in an educational institution - they stated.
As they say, they were introduced to the content of the questionnaire, that is, the assessment scale, from the media.
That is why we could analyze the "questionnaire" exclusively on the basis of the available data. The assessment scale offered is not methodologically, pedagogically or psychologically appropriate for the age of the students for whom it is intended. What we are particularly concerned about are the value attitudes that are given to the students for evaluation. They are full of intolerance and discrimination, they are unacceptable for a healthy society and the 21st century - they pointed out.
They add that all educational programs in their procedural goals define the necessity to develop tolerance, understanding and respect for diversity in students.
The intentions of our educators who do not have time or do not consider it important to respect established procedures can be evaluated by both the professional and lay public, and the Institute of Education hereby appeals to the managers of all educational institutions to protect students from abuse, respect procedures and thus preserve dignity of the work they do - they concluded.
M.J.
