Local people still like to call our school “Special School”. ‘Special Elementary School Črnomelj’ was our first name, which was used until 23rd April 1978. At that time, in accordance with the new law on education and training of children and adolescents with disabilities in physical and mental development, the school was renamed to Milke Šobar – Nataše Elementary School Črnomelj.
And why exactly this new name, which in those years was also the name of today’s Šmihel Elementary School?
Since 1974, the school has had a pioneering movement named after Milka Šobar – Nataše, a local partisan commissar who fell during World War II and was declared a national heroine. The school organization then unanimously agreed that the school should bear this name, and the surviving relatives of the late heroine also agreed.
Nowadays, we call our school MŠN or Milka for short. Who knows if it will keep the name for the next 50 years?
