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– We want to make daily life more flexible for parents and ease the transition between kindergarten and school for children and reduce the pressure of learning in first grade. Therefore, we want parents to be able to take time off for the child even if there is no illness, says Ida Lindtveit Røse.
Røse heads the KrF education committee and proposes to allow days off outside of school holidays for the first school year, such as in kindergarten.
– How many days can parents take the first class from school?
– A quota could be discussed, but I think it is the wrong approach. I think you have to have confidence in the judgment of the parents. If there is a high level of absences, you need to have a good dialogue between school and home to ensure that the child receives an education. This is an additional opportunity to take a break, says Røse.
– Vedum is misleading the voters
All parents have a duty by law to ensure that their child receives an education. Parents can choose between school and homeschooling, but if you chose a school first, you must have a valid absence to be absent.
Here, Røse and the committee will give parents more flexibility in the first school year, as first graders can be home without getting sick.
– I do not want to eliminate the obligation to attend school, but to expand the space for valid absences in first grade. The starting point should be that this should not go beyond learning, Røse emphasizes.
Less learning pressure
– In Oslo, 25 percent of first graders speak bad Norwegian to begin normal reading and writing training. Isn’t there a danger that the students who need the school most will be the least there?
– Regardless of the measures in regards to the six-year-olds, there must be a good integration and a good dialogue where the children fight with Norwegian. This applies in kindergarten and also in school. I have more faith in dialogue in that area, if you see that children go out of school a lot, says Røse.
– The main problem is that there is a very large transition between kindergarten and school and that the school is very poorly adapted to the needs of children. Very quickly it becomes a great learning pressure with a lot of time sitting still. Many children find that they don’t fit in. So they don’t get a good relationship with the school and they don’t learn either. This is one of several measures to reduce the pressure of learning and make the transition from kindergarten to school easier and more flexible, explains Røse.
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Mathilde Tybring-Gjedde is a school policy spokesperson in the Conservative Party and believes that the KrF proposal should be left on the shelf.
– This will lead to greater differences and less learning, all investigations and experiences indicate. I strongly agree that there should be a safe transition to school, but there will be no less learning pressure if children lose valuable play and education with their classmates, says Tybring-Gjedde.
Giving resourceful parents a chance to spend long weekends at the cabin may go beyond weaker students, the conservative politician believes.
– It is already a problem today that many start late in kindergarten and do not know Norwegian well enough when they start school. Many schools work well and very consistently to close the gaps. Increasing absenteeism can be a problem for students who have weak language and gaps that need to be closed, says Mathilde Tybring-Gjedde.
