Classes are held separately in Croatian and Serbian language, both of which are standardized varieties of Serbo-Croatian.

[2] Some (notably, but not exclusively, right wing and nationalist Croat groups) have seen that practice as the implementation of segregation policies in education.

[3] This claim was strongly chalanged by minority representatives themselves who underline that parents in Vukovar are free to choose in which language group to enroll their children.

[4] They insist that therefore one cannot talk about segregation from the point of view of international law as defined in the Convention against Discrimination in Education.

They point to the Article 2, paragraph B, explicitly stating that minority groups are entitled to conduct specific forms of education which shall not be perceived as segregation.