At schools in Bosnia, children are still segregated according to their ethnic background:
Bosnia: No End to 'Two Schools Under One Roof' | Balkan Insight
BBC News - Balkan divisions survive in Bosnian schools
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In 2017, numerous prominent writers, scientists, journalists, activists and other public figures from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia signed the Declaration on the Common Language,[12][13][14][15] which calls for “abolishing all forms of linguistic segregation and discrimination in educational and public institutions“.Two schools under one roof - Wikipedia
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The children in the different classes speak the same language - and there is pressure to have this properly recognised:
The Declaration on the Common Language (Serbo-Croatian: Deklaracija o zajedničkom jeziku / Декларација о заједничком језику) was issued in 2017 by a group of intellectuals and NGOs from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Serbia who were working under the banner of a project called "Language and Nationalism". The Declaration states that Croats, Bosniaks, Serbs and Montenegrins have a common standard language of the polycentric type.Declaration on the Common Language - Wikipedia
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It would be like declaring other 'polycentric languages' such as Spanish as having separate languages such as Mexican, Argentinian or Puerto Rican:
Pluricentric language - Wikipedia
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But there are political pressures in the former Yugoslavia:
Language secessionism - Wikipedia
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Even though they speak the same language:
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The New European language specialist looks at how ridiculous the situation is - and the determination to do something about it:
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