Over a thousand parents from Bosnia's southern city of Mostar took to the streets against the “new normal” plan for the 2020/2021 school year in Herzegovina-Neretva Canton, saying that social distancing measures and masks are counterproductive.

The Our Children Association 2014 said that they have been fighting a just fight for several months, noting that the beginning of the new school year in this canton has been badly envisaged. That is why they have six demands from the authorities.

First, they are asking the authorities to revoke the decision saying if one student becomes infected with coronavirus, the entire class should go into self-isolation. They believe that the whole class should not go into isolation, because then the whole school year would be spent in self-isolation.

They demand that children not wear masks in schools because, according to them, children are the least risky group because statistics have shown that children are the least ill.

One of the demands is to abolish the measure that the break be spent in classrooms and demand the ban on temperature measuring of children, saying that only the parents should do this.

The Association pointed out that children are kept distanced only in schools but that there is no distancing in any other segments of life. Namely, the children travel together in school buses, and after classes, they go to extracurricular activities together.

The parents gathered around the Association ask that the Association not be ignored anymore, noting they would not give up their claims and that they will only say yes to online classes in case of a total quarantine.