S and MP agreed school – Västervikstidningen

S and MP agreed school – Västervikstidningen

The Social Democrats and the Green Party have agreed in the school question. It is now agreed compulsory secondary, higher teacher salaries and smaller classes.

A leader Stefan Löfven describes the negotiations as “easy to get along.”

-Both parties have for some time focused much developing school policies. I would say that it has been good conversation.

TT: Have you probed the agreement with the other parties, including the Left

We of course talk with the Left, not least from gains in welfare. These are commitments that also sets up in, for example, fewer children in the classes.

Just fewer children in pre-school classes and groups consider Stefan Löfven is the most important part of the agreement.

But also to increase the attractiveness of the teaching profession with less unnecessary administration. The school will also become more egalitarian, where the schools have more challenges get more resources. This involves removing salmon-RUT, and to allow everyone to benefit from homework help when they need it.

Stefan Löfven also points to the importance of the added education, the Commission will take greater impression of Swedish research.

– International research is good, but the Swedish research has significance in Sweden. We would like that the research will have direct contact with what is happening in the classrooms.

All proposals must be fully funded, claims S-leader – but referring to the upcoming budget for details.

TT: How long it will take to implement the proposals

-Wow, it is impossible to answer. We will begin work immediately, but some proposals have prepared some.

Education Jan Björklund (Liberal) is critical to the agreement, especially the high school should be mandatory:

-Obligatoriskt high school will greatly increase the marginalization of youth in Swedish schools. Especially with their reform that all young people learn in higher education. It would be a miserable way to go. Many young people would get a crushed self-esteem, he says, and continues:
-If requiring that all young people should go to school and study for higher education, one must understand that dropout rates will increase sharply. All young people want to become academics, and society does not work if all becomes academic.

Bjorklund would rather see a different path:

We should go the European way and offer apprenticeships and apprenticeship system as the rest of Europe does.