debate about events happening in school. In schools without Student council, Parent council solely practices all aforementioned actions. School Stages Preschool education As of school year 2006–2007, preschool in duration of 6 months is compulsory and it is the first part of compulsory education. Attended at the age of 5 or 6 in the local kindergarten, it familiarizes students with the educational system. Preschool education is attended from the beginning of the year (in the same year when the 1st grade starts). It lasts for at least 4 hours a day for at least 6 months. After it, students have to pass an exam of ability in order to attend primary school. Primary education Children enroll in primary schools at the age of seven (usually, all students in a class were born in the same year). However, it is possible for students to enroll at the primary school one year earlier if they were born before March. The elementary school is divided into two stages: Lower grades (grades 1-4) Higher grades (grades 5-8) In the lower grades, students are sorted into classes randomly and have only one teacher and classroom for all subjects, except for English, P.E. and, civics or religion which are taught by separate teachers. The teacher that teaches lower grade primary school students has only one class of students assigned to them and remains with the class for 4 years. In the higher grades, students get a whole new range of teachers and classrooms for each subject. Teachers don't change over the years; they remain the same for the next four years. In the 5th grade, each class is assigned The Head Teacher, who is responsible for students in the particular class. Starting grade 1, the school shift changes every 2 weeks. Starting September, students begin attending school in the morning, usually from 7:30AM to 12:40PM. After 2 weeks, students would attend school in the afternoon, usually from 1PM to 6:10PM. This method has been in use since the 20th century, but is not used on all schools, in fact, this method was mostly used in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. When students graduate from the primary school, they choose whether they want to continue their education or not. National Strategy for Education plans to make secondary education compulsory by 2020. The Minister of Education, Žarko Obradović, said that even though strategy would be implemented in