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carried about 70 pupils. A special problem was resistance of parents to girls
schooling and because of that sometimes measures of force were used.
In the period 1916–1918 an Austrian authorities activated work at existing
schools and opened a new in the community centres, where since than they were-
n’t. Two years of work (that was how long schools worked), were in harmony with
politics of annulment a Serbian culture values and imposition of an occupier’s val-
ues. The programme contents of social sciences were founded on aspirations of
assimiliation.
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The intensive schools opening started in the beginning of the 20 century
and generally in private houses. Untill 1930 in 12 communities of Sjenica’s district
were opened primary schools in the places where they weren’t before: Bu|evo,
Bare, Duga Poljana, Gonj, Vapa, Kladnica, Rasan, Ra`daginji and five in bigger
populated places: Karaula, Pravo{evo, Gvozd, @abren, Brnjica and Dragojlovi}i.
From 1930. untill 1940 school opening and building continued. They were
opened in: Stup, [are, Ba~ija and Vrbnica, so in 1940 in Sjenica’s district worked
17 schools and with that were created a new possibilities for bigger encirclement of
children with schooling. Without regard to that fact untill 1940, at schools were
considerable more boys than girls. A comprehension of parents that girls shouldn’t
be educated, a distance from pupil’s homes to schools and poverty because which a
quite number of parents should not ensure a necessary outfit and text-books to all
children in families (when were in average four to six children), were the funda-
mental reasons for situations like that.