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Closed schools in Norway cost society on the order of SEK 1.7 billion (just over SEK 1.6 billion) each day. That calculation makes statistics for Sweden, Statistics for Norway, in a new report.
Photo: Fredrik Varfjell / NTB Scanpix / TT
Empty classroom at Bygdøy school, west of central Oslo. March image.
The direct cost of an individual school day is not that high, but society at large is greatly affected by the extension. The report calculates, among other things, the cost of young people learning less and then entering working life.
“Even with very cautious assumptions about the value of education, the cost of closed schools becomes very high,” says Martin E Andresen, one of the report’s authors.
The majority of the costs, SEK 1.4 billion per day, consist of an estimated decrease in future income. Other points include lower productivity, for example, when parents need to work from home, a lesser estimate of NOK 234 million per day.
All Norwegian preschools and schools have been closed since mid-March due to the corona virus. They will begin to open gradually starting next week.
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