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In connection with the start of the school, the administrators of the elementary school administration were called in by upset parents whose children were placed in schools they had not chosen. Schools that would mean very long travel times for children.
A digital support system that only calculated the kilometer of distance and did not take into account public transport or that the city is divided by a river, was one of the reasons for the chaos that was generated.
An external review commissioned by the City of Gothenburg to review how work with school placements was handled. This also included an investigation into whether there had been unauthorized influence on administrators to change locations.
Now, the results show that politicians, tutors, and managers have all tried to influence individual administrators within the primary and lower secondary school administration, as stated in a press release from the city of Gothenburg.
Now the results show that politicians as well as tutors and managers have attempted to influence individual administrators within the elementary and lower secondary school administration.
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“Completely unacceptable”
– Unauthorized influence on work with school placements or in connection with any government decision is, of course, completely unacceptable. No manager should be exposed to it at work. This is a prerequisite for a legally safe and equal treatment of cases involving students in Gothenburg city schools. We as an administration must be able to guarantee this, says Bengt Randén, director of the compulsory school, in the press release.
However, the random sampling examination shows that no student appears to have received an incorrect school assignment as a result of undue influence.
According to the press release, the compulsory school administration will now take steps to counter unauthorized influence issues. All employees and managers will be informed about what such an impact entails and how the victim should act.
Other deficiencies that appear in the report
The press release also lists these shortcomings that emerged during the review:
The school selection process and the school change process were managed in parallel, but had different governance and management, which contributed to the ambiguity in the governance of the whole.
The control signals were changed during the work in progress, which meant that not all cases were handled in the same way.
Individual students may have been treated differently as a result of an increase in the capacity of individual schools.
There is no consensus in the compulsory school administration on the extent to which the procedure can take into account the special reasons of the pupils.
The lack of case management systems made processing difficult. We assess that there is a risk of inappropriate decision-making, that key information has been lost and that decisions have been modified without objective rationale.
Venue entitlement and venue requests have been mixed as a result of insufficient communication, which may have meant that guardians had impossible expectations to meet.
