Sweden’s schools minister declares charter school ‘system failure’
Sweden’s schools minister declares charter school ‘system failure’
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It has been a disaster from the start, but it got worse and worse with time. I remember reading that the schools would give the children iPads and other things just so they would sign up for that school. Basically they would bribe the children to get the parents to send them so that they could make more money. And that's only the top of the iceberg ...
(PS: I changed the title from "free school" to "charter school" which is the correct english name for what is described in the article.)
I doubt she and her party will manage to do anything to improve the school system for anyone but the investors (which, at least did, include herself https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/skolministern-vackte-forvaning-i-riksdagen)
Interesting that she comes out of that system that she criticizes. That will be a tough fight for the school companies. I hope she has so much integrity as it seems.
Luckily, Germany didn’t put it eggs into the iPad school basket. Observing my kids learning with it by Gamification Learn Apps, it has this bad taste of game addiction not learning.
They're as bad as any other school in Sweden. Stuck in the 1800s. They're just wasting the kids time with stuff that once was important but won't be in the future they'll live and work in.
/father of three school age children
Can you list off a few of the things you see as educational time wastes?
*Edit: Here,..in good faith I’ll throw one out— Cursive Writing.
Well I don't know what Troed is referring to but my kid in the first grade is doing "Letter of the week" for the fourth time. (He learned them the first time 3 years ago in kindergarten). They also use something called Bornholmsmodellen that is from the last century and has been highly criticized for not encouraging curiosity nor building interest.
Rote learning - anything. That's 50% of the time currently - which can then be used to shorten school days with the same. We're living in a world where information is available at our finger tips - and that won't suddenly become less so.
Every generation suffers from the same faulty thinking. "Because this is the way it was for me it must be the right way also for my children".
(Cursive writing was a waste of time already when I went to school in the late 80s)