Map showing the contour of the Mjesna Zajedniča in black, and the schools in Sarajevo in red( outline: non-operative, solid red: operative)
Map of the itinerary of teachers from the high school Treća Gimnazija . In red, the school, its two relocations, the houses of the professors and the punkts. In black, residential settlements from the Yugoslav Socialist period.
Darine Choueiri
Each of the four municipalities of Sarajevo are composed of a number of Mjesna Zajednice , an urban structure that was also social; during the Yugoslav period these MZ were self-managed entities where residents autonomously made decisions on local issues. This existing structure actually facilitated the development of a rhizomatic school structure: all the children living in a particular MZ attended the same punkt located in it, no matter which primary or secondary school they had attended before the siege. Before, primary schools, gymnasiums and vocational schools might have a number of MZ under their responsibility, which meant finding
and organising teachers and professors to give classes, keep records and organise exams in each one. If these Matična škola (mother schools) were destroyed, professors relocated to schools that were still operative or in other kinds of spaces. Thus school came to the children; it was always in their close vicinity, within walking distance from their homes which avoided displacement and limited danger in getting to and from school. Instead it was the teachers who had to walk often long distances from their houses to the punkts , when it was not too dangerous, to meet their students.
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