Ebba Busch (KD) “panicks” over the proposal to bus students.
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Daniel Helldén (MP).
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On Saturday, the party leaders Ebba Busch (KD), Johan Pehrson (L), Daniel Helldén (MP) and Muharrem Demirok (C) will be in the studio, together with the presenters Jenny Strömstedt and Ann Tiberg.
Next week the rest of the party leaders will arrive.
The theme they start with on Saturday morning is “Learning for life”. The party leaders will discuss measures they want to take to improve the school.
The party leaders are debating, among other things, the so-called “busing” of children from one school to another in order to get a greater mix of students. Where Daniel Helldén said, among other things, that more school classes had benefited from being more “mixed”.
Something that was not well received by Johan Pehrson.
– Going around with big buses in the morning in Sweden is not the solution.
Ann Tiberg highlights Sandviken as an example where they have tried to have a more mixed school. Middle school students from Västanbyn are moved to Murgårdsskolan, which has more students with an immigrant background.
– I panic when I hear that, says Ebba Busch.
Daniel Helldén starts to answer the KD leader but is interrupted by the presenters – it’s time for a news break. Just before the program breaks to go to TV4 Nyheterna, raised voices from among others Muharrem Demirok and Johan Pehrson are heard in the studio.
“Can’t dump upbringing”
Otherwise, it was a quiet debate between the party leaders.
Earlier in the discussion, Ebba Busch said that she wants to put more focus on which values the schools should convey to the students, but also put more focus on the parents standing for the same values.
– As mothers and fathers, we cannot dump upbringing on the teachers.
She says that it is therefore important to have proper support for parents.
Johan Pehrson once again highlighted the reading crisis in Sweden. There every fourth student does not reach the basic level in reading comprehension.
Pehrson: “One of the messiest schools”
He also believes that teachers must be allowed to intervene against unruly students in the classrooms.
– We have one of the messiest schools in the whole world. We know that respect for teachers is low, says Johan Pehrson.
Today, teachers need to document if they send a student out of the classroom. Muharrem Demirok says that the teachers should spend their time on other things instead.
– There is a documentation hysteria in the Swedish school.
Daniel Helldén rather stressed the importance of more teachers and special education teachers in the schools, in order to overcome the mess in the classrooms.