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DN has previously said how the high school students at Dibber International in Sollentuna were shocked and felt bad when they returned to school after summer break because their new teachers at SO and NO only spoke English.
The school was previously called Norrvikens skola, but was bought two years ago by the large Norwegian independent school group Dibber, who wanted to create an international profile.
It was renamed Dibber International Sollentuna. The purpose was to attract new groups of students by following both the Swedish curriculum and the international curriculum called IB.
“Today both students and tutors demand it. You become more of a citizen of the world, “the school’s principal, Sara Lundberg, told DN.
The children’s parents said how your children came home and felt bad and lost self-confidence.
An eleven-year-old boy, for example, had a panic attack when he could not make himself understood in English, at the same time that the teacher had forbidden him to speak Swedish with his classmates.
A group of parents reported the school to the Swedish School Inspectorate because it violated the Swedish Education Law by teaching English without a permit.
If the school had had a permit, it would still have violated existing regulations because only fifty percent of teaching in the Swedish curriculum can be carried out in English.
Jonas Sandberg, Ulrika Enocksson and Erika Gulliksson reported the school to the Swedish School Inspectorate.
Photo: Beatrice Lundborg
Now the Swedish School Inspectorate has made the decision to go to school cannot organize teaching in English. This also applies to the Dibber International school in Helsingborg, which also after the summer holidays started teaching in English without a permit and according to a similar concept.
The motivation behind the refusal is that the school does not meet the requirements imposed on schools that wish to organize parts of the teaching in English.
The school management has also changed its responses to the Swedish School Inspectorate during the trip to be more in line with the requirements of the Swedish curriculum, writes the Swedish School Inspectorate.
This means that there is a risk that the school management will “override the Swedish curriculum in favor of the international one” and that students “will not be offered the education to which they are entitled,” writes the Swedish School Inspectorate. in your decision.
According to the school, teaching in grades 1-6, they represent 40-50 percent of total instructional time first and in SO, NO, math, and technology.
Teaching in English would take place in two parallel classes where one class would be led by a Swedish-speaking teacher and the other by an English-speaking one.
Then it was thought that the students would change teachers.
But when the school was endorsed by the Swedish School Inspectorate, it changed and meant that there would always be a Swedish-speaking teacher with Swedish teacher ID in the lessons.
For high school students, it was intended to be taught only in English in the subjects of English, sports, art, music and technology. But the Swedish School Inspectorate is not confident that teaching in English does not exceed 50 percent.
The school address also has no they have been able to credibly explain how it should work so that upper secondary school students have a sufficient knowledge of the Swedish language to meet the knowledge requirements according to the Swedish curriculum.
In support, the school administration has stated that they will be able to use Google Translate to keep up with Chromebook. But the Swedish School Inspectorate considers that this aid is not enough.
The Swedish School Inspectorate also writes in its refusal that the school started teaching in English without a permit. Nor has it been able to demonstrate that the teachers who teach classes have a foreign teacher training corresponding to a Swedish teaching qualification, which is required by the Education Act.
The school management also has He mixed two curricula in teaching, the Swedish primary school curriculum and the so-called IB (international baccalaureate).
But as the main target group of the school is students permanently residing in Sweden, the national curriculum is binding and cannot be superseded by other curricula.
Education in a Swedish school “will be taught in Swedish on the basis of the nationally established curriculum,” writes the Swedish School Inspectorate.
Read more:
Students in shock after summer break: teachers only spoke English
The school management must respond to the teaching of English.
The minister: the Swede must have an important position in the school
English learners at school: the Swedish language is harder than you think
Studio DN: How can a school change only the language of instruction?
