IX-th Belgrade Gymnasium "Mihailo Petrović-Alas"

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The IX-th Belgrade Gymnasioum "Mihailo Petrović-Alas" (Serbian: Deveta beogradska gimnazija "Mihailo Petrović-Alas; Девета гимназија "Михајло Петровић-Алас") is a high school located in New Belgrade, Serbia. Founded in 1962, the school is named after the Serbian mathematician Mihailo Petrović-Alas.

The school has a reputation of being very academically demanding, with high entry standards: for example, in 2005, an applicant needed a score of at least 96 out of 100 points on the Serbian High school examination to enroll in the school [1]. The school is generally considered to be one of the "elite" Belgrade high schools, along with schools such as the III-rd and the V-th Belgrade gymnasiums.

1 Notable alumni
2 Trivia
3 "The New Belgrade School of Philosophy"
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Notable alumni

Zoran Đinđić, the assassinated Serbian prime minister, graduated from the IX-th gymnasium in 1970 [2]
Vanja Bulić, a Serbian journalist
Mlađan Dinkić, current Serbian minister of finance, former Central Bank governor
Igor Rakočević, Serbian basketball player
Aleksandar Đorđević, Serbian basketball player, played for IX-th gymnasium's basketball team in 1986, when the school won the Belgrade High School Basketball tournament [3]
Stefan Arsenijević, a Serbian film director nominated for the US Academy Award (i.e. Oscar) in 2003 for the Best live action short film [4]
Čedomir Jovanović, Serbian politician; started his high-school career in the IX-th gymnasium, but then transferred to Treća ekonomska school [5]
Verica Rakočević, Serbian fashion designer [6]

[edit] Trivia

The legend passed from generation to generation of incoming students is that the school building served as a women's prison before being converted to a school. The legend was perpetuated by graffiti on the school building, saying "Stavite nam turpiju u lebac!" ("Put a file in our bread!"), as well as the fact that some buildings' ground-floor windows have bars.

[edit] "The New Belgrade School of Philosophy"

An article from 2000 titled "The Political beginning of Zoran Đinđić," claims that it was Dr. Milan Kovačević, a professor of philosophy at the IX-th gymnasium, who first introduced Đinđić to philosophy, and encouraged him to pursue further studies of the subject at Belgrade University. The article states that the IX-th gymnasium was notorious in communist Yugoslavia for the liberal atmosphere that produced free thinkers. This atmosphere earned the school the nicknames "The New Belgrade School of Philosophy" (Novobeogradska filosofska skola) and "The Ninth Circle" (Deveti krug). article