The future of a society that pays a gravedigger more than a school principal is bleak!

By: Rasim Belko

Young people are leaving, this has been a cliché for years, warning us about demographic catastrophe by politicians, analysts, and statisticians. The forecasts have long been bleak, and Bosnia and Herzegovina is predicted to be a land of the elderly in about 30 years, which de facto means a country and society that lacks the strength to develop.

Political ignoramuses, in the absence of creative solutions, often resort to populism during campaigns and in the narrative about young people leaving and generally about them, in the country. But when they gain the voters' trust, they change their tune in a different direction.

The fact that it is all actually a game with the future, and not serious politics, is shown by the amounts allocated for salaries from the budget funded by citizens.

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Salaries of directors in the public sector in KS differ by up to 2000 KM, highest in utility sector, lowest in education

By: A. Vrabac After the salaries of directors of public companies and institutions at the level of the Federation of BiH were publicly announced, for which data was requested by the FBiH Government, and from which it is evident that some directors have salaries higher than 8,000 KM, asked

The fact that salaries in education are the lowest best exposes policies that clearly do not care about creating literate and successful generations who would lead Bosnia and Herzegovina towards prosperity.

You will often hear them say that the future of the country and the world rests with the youth, but you will rarely see them factually confirm what they say with concrete actions. The salaries of primary and secondary school principals are on average around 1500 KM and are among the lowest salaries for directors in the public sector.

And primary and secondary schools are the springboard of knowledge and understanding for the bearers of future processes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, so the question inevitably arises why school principals, in institutions where future generations are educated, have such lower salaries. And if the salaries of school principals are low, how can we even talk about the salaries of teachers. And then, our institutions, under incompetent and lost governance, offer us plans and agendas for better education, while paying the people who are key to that education the least.

However, the key might be the fact that politicians in Bosnia and Herzegovina have actually abandoned children and young people, including their education, and turned to the elderly, who can serve well for another decade or two for the political survival and enrichment of party leaders and their loyalists.

And worn-out voter masses of elderly people need to be buried when they pass away. That is probably why the cantonal government in Sarajevo gives the director of the funeral company Pokop twice the salary compared to the directors of secondary and primary schools.

Therefore, those who take care of children and their education are far more undervalued than the person who manages a company for the final farewell of worn-out elderly voter masses.

Is there anyone in this society who seriously deals with their job and can explain to the experts who distribute salary coefficients that education is the key to development, and the funeral business is dedicated to the very end of life?

If our fate lies in the symbolic ratio of school principals' salaries and Pokop's, then our fate is darker than we can imagine.

Somehow, we too often hear the slogan that if they take away our education and culture, they have taken away our country, but we rarely see it implemented at any level of government. There are several factors that influence such actions by the government, which, in the situation we are in, should take care of children, young people, and those who teach them as they would a drop of water in the desert.

But our policies are led by poor students, with impoverished vocabulary and intellectual reach, so their fear of the development of education and the arrival of educated people is quite understandable, but impossible to justify. In such a line of reasoning, the director of Pokop, without personal comparison, is a symbol of the gravedigger of the future, both of the state and society.

Through their attitude towards education, culture, and other progressive segments of society, our politicians prove that they are what they are exclusively due to the insidious transitional period, in which uneducated but cunning liars can fish in troubled waters.

And as long as that is the case, the forecasts for Bosnia and Herzegovina as a country and society as a whole can be nothing other than the bleakest predictions.

The moment a gravedigger is paid exclusively by the membership fees of those who wish to be buried in his arrangements, and school principals and teachers are paid as much as is needed for our children to be educated and successful, we can talk about the recovery of society.

Until then, we will note bleak demographic forecasts, and gravediggers will rub their hands with satisfaction!