Is our Prime-minister blind or just stupid?
I think it is rather evident that the swedish primary school system kind of blows. Their is no pressure on students what so ever, if you are not mature enough at a reasonable age, you will fall out. This system has been progressing further with our dear socialist government the last 30 years. Even if it is a fair system, where no one is neglected or judged, it leads to a big majority of students graduating with low grades and thus competence. However, if you were mature enough to take responsibility over your own education and learning there is hope when you enter the secondary eduacational school. This is because we have a system of county funded private secondary schools (free-schools) in Sweden. This meaning that schools can operate as a private school, but instead of taking tution they get a certain amount of money allocated to them for each respective student. Why this is a good thing is because it leads to competition. Schools have an incentive to improve the standard of teaching, facilities, teachers, aims etc to attract students, thus income. This system operates side-by-side with the county public schools. These schools have a reputation of being worse in terms of education, however, they often have a lot of students and thus a lot of study opportunitites. My general experience is that people who graduated primary school with good grades and an incentive to further studies, go on to free-schools. Just because the standard is so much higher there. I myself went one year to one of those schools and studies civics. Compared to my friends eduation at the public institution it was amazing. Now to my concern. Our prime-minister announced today some points for county improvement. Among these points were his concern that the fast and vast outspreading of free-schools in Sweden are jepordazing our standardized educational system. Is he completely blind. The free-schools are what makes secondary educational in Sweden comparable to the international standard. Without this our productivity and trade competetiveness would decline to the negative within a decade. We need good and competetive education for those who wants it. Otherwise you create this lump of poorly educated people who only work as a liability to the state. I urge our prime-minister to look over his socialistic utopiotic ideals and realize what actually is best for our country. It is not to late to improve our schools, it just takes the right ambition. So, grow up Persson, leave the education for people who actually is bright enough to benefit from it!!!
posted by Dale @ 2/16/2006 03:25:00 PM
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