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I stay away a bit, on my way home after dropping the kids off at an equally noisy preschool, and I think we’re all like a sheep in shock. We just go on and accept the insanity.
Next year, my oldest son will start school. We have chosen to live in the city, but we have not chosen to have the children here squeezed into inhumanly large groups of children with very few school personnel. In one of the nearby primary schools, about 90 six-year-olds were enrolled a few weeks ago. They are crammed into the same hallway with two, maybe three bathrooms. My friend, whose children are one of these nearly 100, says the staff have already started taking sick leave. The noise level is inhuman. Children who have additional difficulties with noise and confusion withdraw and end up outside.
“I don’t want it that way,” I tell my husband and I continue to say that we should move to the country and put the children in a small school in the forest. Or we stay and take the fight, we become some of the parents who are classified as spoilers in the principal of the city school. How did most Swedish parents agree with inhumanly large groups of children, impaired school staff, and a generally too stressful work environment for our children, five days a week? Had we agreed it ourselves?
Where are our collective protests from parents?
Teachers and other school personnel have sounded the alarm several times over the years. In 2012, the then president of the National Union of Teachers, Metta Fjelkner, wrote in a debate article in Svenska Dagbladet: “A class with more than 25 students does not give teachers a real opportunity to be available to help everyone. students”.
In the run-up to the 2014 elections, the Sausages promised smaller school classes, but a few years later, the size of school classes in the country had only increased. Teachers who participated in the “Teacher Uprising” stated on the Skolvärlden site last year:
“The Swedish school is in crisis. We have children who cry in panic from having to go to school, children who burn out at the age of eight, children who cannot sit in a classroom with 28 other people because they cannot do a follow up on all relationships “.
Where are our collective protests from parents? When I look around, I mainly see parents who take their children to preschool and school with the naive belief that everything flows and works. Then, in this context, they bring up banal nonsense at parent meetings. Where are the parents in solidarity with all the school personnel who more or less separate to join the days of our children? And where are our loud protests against decision makers who continue to think that it is reasonable to crowd too many children in too small an area with too high levels of stress and noise as a result?
Why are we happy when we have the power to demand a whole new school reform together? Away from everyone he has the opportunity to move to the country and put the children in a small Waldorf family school, but we often behave as if that is the case. We behave as if it is people’s responsibility to ensure that the children and adults who work with our children take issues into their own hands. Adjustments are made for students who become meaner in chaos, rather than changing the chaos itself.
The Swedish school may be the best, the healthiest and most humane in the world. We just have to start demanding it.
