Political scientist calls Jovine director a party bureaucrat who lectures top students and teachers on the Constitution and law

Political scientist Duško Radosavljević says those who invoke the Constitution and laws most loudly are often the ones who violate them most. He was responding to Radivoje Stojković, director of Jovan Jovanović Zmaj Gymnasium in Novi Sad, who called an elementary court decision a “coup d’état” after it temporarily returned suspended teachers to their jobs.

Radosavljević said the authorities should leave office because of what has happened around one of Serbia’s oldest and most respected secondary schools. He accused them of allowing alleged abuses to continue for more than a year and a half, placing themselves above the Constitution, the state and the law.

He described Stojković as a bureaucrat hiding behind grand phrases. Radosavljević said the director was now lecturing the country’s young people and Novi Sad’s leading teachers about the Constitution, the law and an attack on the Republic of Serbia, despite the damage he believed had been done to the school and its staff.

Radosavljević also attacked what he called the director’s harsh language toward the judiciary. He compared Stojković to a party bureaucrat who wants students to approve of him while treating their favorite teachers as disposable. “You cannot play with people’s lives like that,” he said, arguing that the teachers had helped educate future leaders.

Asked why Jovine Gymnasium had become the setting for what he called a display of power, Radosavljević pointed to its location next to a Serbian Orthodox Church building. He suggested that expansion for a university could be one possible motive, while accusing the authorities of viewing the site as development land rather than as an institution with educational value.

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You cannot play with people’s lives like that.