I received the following statement by hundreds of Swedish teachers, protesting against the odious effects of privatization in education. They signed this post.
We teachers do not want to have it like this anymore
Published 28 Apr 2022 at 06.00
Filippa Mannerheim, high school teacher, Stockholm.
HP Tran, primary school teacher, Gothenburg.
Sara Persson, primary school teacher, Västervik.Photo: Sara Winsnes
Marcus Erhagen, high school teacher, Örebro.
Per Edberg, preschool teacher, Umeå.
We teachers demand a change. We demand that you politicians make sure to fix the institutionalized, corruption-promoting defects you yourself have built into the school system so that we teachers can focus on teaching Sweden’s children, 285 teachers write in a call against the marketized school.
This is a debate article. It is the writer who stands for the opinions in the text.
DEBATE. We who write this article do so even though we do not really have the time or energy. We write it even though it is not our job. We write it even though it should not have been needed and had not been needed in any other country than Sweden.
But as things stand now, we feel we have no choice.
We in Sweden today have large, commercial school groups that expand at the expense of the municipal school and make a profit through lower teacher density, fewer qualified teachers, fewer costly students and lower teacher salaries than municipal schools. Group schools receive permission from the Swedish Schools Inspectorate to start in municipalities even though the municipalities themselves say no and there is no need.
We do not want it like this.
Today, through the free right of establishment and the unregulated offer, a school can be opened anywhere and look any way. A teaching position can be anything for anyone. Nothing on the school grounds is regulated. Nothing is planned based on society’s needs.
We do not want it this way.
In the past, independent schools had lower school fees because the municipality must ensure that all students can go to a school close to home. The municipality can not choose the organization that is cheapest, it can independent schools. The municipality can not put students in line, it can independent schools. The municipality can not profile its schools so that some students feel that the school is not suitable for them, independent schools can. The municipality’s assignments are larger and more expensive, but the tuition fees are just as large. A majority of the Riksdag’s parties refuse to change this.
We do not want it this way.
The revolving doors between politicians and independent school companies are freshly blown and the close ties that exist between politicians, lobbyists and the business community are becoming increasingly tighter when former politicians take seats in school management or continue their careers as lobbyists.
It’s time to listen to the voters. It’s time to listen to us teachers. It is time to climb out of the school market swamp and act as elected politicians again.
Public opinion in Sweden is clearly against the private gains made in welfare and school. Nevertheless, this is not reflected in the Riksdag decisions that are made.
We do not want it this way.
School companies and large real estate companies today buy school properties so that the companies can make money at school even if politicians decide on a profit ban. They want to be able to move money from profits in school to profits in real estate companies. Instead of hiring teachers, the school fees are used for the real estate companies’ return requirements.
We do not want it this way.
We have politicians who drum up “freedom of choice” as a mantra as soon as criticism is directed at the system, but the free choice they defend is in fact the school groups, which through targeted marketing to parents with high-performing children, have the choice to only give school to the “cheapest The students. Everything is as it should be in the best of worlds, the majority of our parliamentary parties believe.
But we do not want it this way.
The Swedish school once made class trips possible. The school was good at getting the majority of students to succeed – even children without a study background. Today, Sweden has the most unequal school of all the Nordic countries. Swedish school torn apart.
Instead of a cohesive compensatory school, we now have listed company schools, groups with fake coats of arms, schools that call themselves international and that have teaching in a language other than Swedish. We have religious schools with dubious values.
We teachers do not want it like this anymore. We demand a change. We demand that you politicians make sure to remedy the institutionalized, corruption-promoting defects you yourself have built into the school system so that we teachers can focus on teaching Sweden’s children. And avoid writing articles like this in the future.
It’s time to listen to the voters. It’s time to listen to us teachers. It is time to climb out of the school market swamp and act as elected politicians again.
We teachers do not want it like this anymore.
Rolf Wallander, subject teacher years 4-6, Haninge
Miranda Chang, F-6 teacher, Gislaved
HP Tran, primary school teacher, Gothenburg
Helena Tarras-Wahlberg, teacher, Ängelholm
Anna Bränström, high school teacher, Sundbyberg municipality
Maria Karlsson, high school teacher, Knivsta
Jonas Linderoth, Professor of Pedagogy University of Gothenburg
Pia Ennemuist, elementary school teacher, leisure educator, Värmdö
Therese Wikström, high school teacher, Ale
Erik Winerö, high school teacher / doctoral student educational science, Lerum
Alexander Nilsson, high school teacher, Trelleborg
Marie Pettersson, special educator, Skövde
Therese Andersson, elementary school teacher, Örebro
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Magnus Svensson, university lecturer, teacher educator, Eskilstuna.
Ann-Christine Norman, upper secondary school teacher, Boden
Daniel Runhage, primary school teacher, Malmö
Per Edberg, preschool teacher, Umeå
Filippa Mannerheim, upper secondary school teacher, Stockholm
Anton Ek, primary school teacher. Falun
Felix Björk, music teacher student, Stockholm
Aron Ihse Trägårdh, elementary teacher student, Malmö
Anthon Brunzell, subject teacher student, Lund
Björn Dahlman, teacher, Ekerö
Terese Crona Lindström, teacher in after-school center, Ängelholm
Simon Kvassman, subject teacher and teacher student, Örebro
Birch Petter
MagnusBäcklund, teacher Hörby
Jenny Winberg, teacher, Västerås
Edvin Jensen, high school teacher, Linköping
Maria Olsson, retired high school teacher, Ale
Martin Ahlstedt, high school teacher, Gothenburg
Pernilla Wallgren, elementary school teacher, Stockholm
Lena Karlsson Saranpää, elementary school teacher, Motala
Maja Anselius, Special educator
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Erika Tidblom, teacher, Norrköping
Magnus Dahlström, high school teacher, Malmö
Tilde Jansson, high school teacher, Stockholm
Lena Danelius, high school teacher, Lund
Daniel Lund, high school teacher, Norrköping
Rasmus Hardeström, teacher, Linköping
Maria Hals, high school teacher, Danderyd
Joel Larsson, High school, Danderyd
Maria Jarlsdotte r former principal, Ängelholm
Per Johansson, high school teacher, Ängelholm
Karl Engqvist, primary school teacher, Arvika.
Olof Persson, High school teacher, Strömsund
Lotta Lindvall, preschool teacher in preschool class, Motala
Birgitta Hultkrantz, Municipal adult teacher Stockholm
Jonas Hemström, deputy principal, Stockholm
Andreas Olofsson, high school teacher, Ljungby
Petter Cronberg, teacher, Nyhamnsläge
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Kristina Lundin, high school teacher, Köping
Ulla Åkerström, leg. teachers who left school, Gothenburg
Johanna Verme, high school teacher student, Lerum
Jesper Berglund, high school teacher, Gothenburg
Lisa Göland, high school teacher, Linköping
Petra Särnhammar, school librarian and high school teacher, Linköping
Linda Odén, high school teacher, Gråbo
Lars Ljunggren, high school teacher, Falun
Åsa Tadell, high school teacher
Maria Gustavson, teacher, Västerås
Fredrik Sandström, teacher, Arboga
Tom Bergström, vocational teacher, Sala
Petra Lindström, teacher, Gnesta
Pontus Bierich, Teacher, Kungälv
Linnea Argårds, teacher, Örebro
Martin Viklund, teacher, Hudiksvall
Gunnar Wike, primary school teacher, Västerås
Anders Törnlund , teacher, Huddinge
Jan Kjellin, preschool teacher, Falun
Fredrik Björkman, high school teacher, Malmö
Elisabeth Ahrent, teacher Simrishamn
Johan Carlsson, high school teacher, Upplands Väsby
Fredrik Törnqvist, high school teacher, Stockholm
Magnus Almström, high school teacher, Borås
Helena Edvardsson, elementary school teacher, Gothenburg
Christoffer Eriksson, high school teacher , Uppsala
Kari Nilsson, teacher, Malmö
Elin Persson, after-school center teacher, Danderyd
Anna Östman, primary school teacher, Huddinge
Rickard Himre, upper secondary school teacher, Stockholm
Fredrik Clausson, upper secondary school teacher, Lund
Nils Rickdorff Lahrin, upper secondary school teacher, Uppsala
Björn Johannesson, primary school teacher, Gothenburg
Maryna Grip, primary school teacher, Söderhamn
Jan Magnusson,
Lotta Gedik-Cederberg, primary school teacher, Malmö
Jenny Vide, primary school teacher, Uppsala
Mathias Israelsson, primary school teacher, Gothenburg
Lilian Birath, high school teacher, Svedala
Anna Heimer, preschool teacher, Partille
Patrik Unné, special educator
Margareta Melin, primary school teacher, Kungälv
Jonas Fried, Gothenburg primary school
teacher , elementary school teacher, Ryd
Sara Persson, elementary school teacher, Västervik
Maria Himre, high school teacher, Stockholm
Marie Karlsson, elementary school teacher, Svedala
Olof Loklint, elementary school teacher, Västerås
Niclas Djupström, high school teacher, Skövde
Gunnel Alm, high school teacher, Norrköping
Bodil Ejwertz, teacher, Tylyl
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Helen a Svanängen, university lecturer, Jönköping
Isabella Åkerlund, teacher, Karlstad
Maria Hilber, preschool teacher, Huddinge
Isabella Verner, high school teacher, Stockholm
Malin Ahlgren, high school teacher, Stockholm
Elinor Löfstaf, teacher, Västerås
Peter Sjöde IDH teacher Jönköping
Svensson Gothenburg
MånsPettersson, high school teacher, Stockholm
Anders Lindborg, high school teacher Varberg
Karin Berg, high school teacher, Gothenburg
Peter Alm, high school teacher, Uppsala
Marina Nordin, teacher, Stockholm
Calle Andén, primary school teacher, Gotland
Niclas Ländin, deputy principal, Sollentuna
Hedvig Bolmgren, special teacher / special educator,
Östhammar Rosenberg, primary school teacher, Klippan
Fredrik Hornegård, teacher, Stockholm
EwaLiz Larsson, primary school teacher, Karlskrona
Tobias Nilsson, special teacher, Lund
Anna Nylander, high school teacher, Lysekil.
Marika Lindholm, teacher, former. principal, Stockholm
Emma Sjödin, high school teacher, Stockholm
Shpetim Ademi, high school teacher, Kristianstad.
Johanna Andersson, high school teacher, Malmö
Bernt Andersson, leg. teacher of music and English, SiS in Lidköping
Magnus Karlberg Teacher / leisure educator Stockholm
Ellinor Brantås, elementary school teacher, Järfälla
Johanna Ramstedt, elementary school teacher, Stockholm
Linda Bäckström, high school teacher, Gothenburg
Niklas Aronsson, high school teacher Gothenburg
Hjalmar Holgersson, high school teacher, Gothenburg
Pelle Flemark, high school
Eva Söderberg, certified teacher of handicrafts / Swedish, Gothenburg
Kedikova, high school teacher, Norrköping
Anna Lundin, music teacher, Västerås
Helene Johansson, elementary / high school teacher, Uddevalla
Jakob Winnberg, high school teacher, Växjö
Solveig Ivarsson, elementary school teacher, Svenljunga
Jan Gustavsson, Norrman Lotman,
Zumi, elementary school teacher, Ulricehamn
Anna Klingström, high school teacher, Sala
Fredrik Månsson, high school teacher, Norrköping
Christina W. Källström, high school teacher, Katrineholm
Emma Solum Holst, high school teacher, Borlänge
Alexandra Georgieva, elementary school teacher, Gothenburg
Carina Lindström, music teacher in elementary school,
Södertarje high school Lina teacher, Stockholm
Helena Wessel, school secretary former high school teacher, Stockholm
Katarina Hjärpe, school librarian, Malmö
Mattias Forsberg, high school teacher, Arvika
Henrik Estvik, high school teacher, Stockholm
Maria Ruukel, elementary school teacher, Valdemarsvik
Åsa Andersson, elementary school teacher, Västerås
Jonathan Wikström, elementary school teacher,
L primary school teacher, Stockholm
Staffan Lindström, music teacher in primary school, Södertälje
Carin Hammarström, teacher, Malmö
Hans-Uno Karlsson, retired primary school teacher, Hajom
Jennie Gudmundsson, leg. teacher ma / bi 7–9, Ängelholm
Ragnar Suneson retired language teacher 7–9, Tranås
Cecilia Ekdahl Schewenius, subject teacher / assistant professor, Kungshamn
Jan Wärmegård, primary school teacher, Stockholm
Cecilia F. Kroon, teacher, Staffanstorp
Gunilla Martinsson, teacher Falkenberg
Maria Henriksson, language teacher Mora
Anna Liljekvist, teacher, Nacka
Cecilia Svensson, teacher F-3, Sundsvall
Inga-Lill Lagerlöf, retired teacher, Tierp
Hanna Wallinder, teacher, Malmö
Helén Enqvist, language teacher years 6–9, Botkyrka
Annette Säterberg, high school teacher, Kungsbacka
Ingemar Abrahamsson, handicraft teacher, Gothenburg
Lotta Carlson, subject teacher Ma / No, Kungsbacka
Carola Svensson, adult teacher, Norrköping
Marie Wislander, teacher, Tjörn
Maria Jansson, special teacher, Stockholm
Jonny Wester, music teacher, Hylte
Miriam Järlebark, teacher SFI, Örebro
Film Katja
Roselli Åsell, teacher, Hofors
Jan Gustavsson, Municipal adult teacher, Norrköping
Helen Egardt, high school teacher, Lidingö
Thomas Bergström, high school teacher Ludvika
Mikael Winblad, teacher e, Strängnäs
Ann-Sofie Johansson, high school teacher, Västerås
Pia Brodersen, special educator, Stockholm
Ulla Sunden, teacher, Gothenburg
Mirjam Cameron Sedwall, teacher, Stockholm
Linda Söderberg, teacher, Timrå
Robert Warrebäck, teacher, Stockholm
Jenny Vad-Schütt, teacher, Täby
Johan Thorssell, high school teacher, Gothenburg
Cecilia Rosenqvist, subject teacher, Simrishamn
Rebecka Beijer, high school teacher, Eskilstuna
Jaana Vilén, special teacher, Karlskoga
Carola Sjöstrand, teacher, Jönköping
Elisabeth Broman, former elementary school teacher, Österåker
Sabina Granstrand, teacher Frida, Samstad
4-6 Gothenburg
Louise Halldin, high school teacher, Gothenburg
Birgitta Jensen, deputy principal, Emmaboda
Pia Thomasson, 7 – 9 teachers, Ängelholm
Sanna Dabolins, high school teacher, Gothenburg
Linda Gunnarsson, teacher, Härryda
Bengt Johansson, teacher, Nacka
Malin Hökby, high school teacher, Nacka
Anna Näslund War, primary school teacher 4–6, Karlskrona
Ingela Bursjöö, teacher, Gothenburg
Hasse Annerbo, primary school teacher 1–7 Falun
Åsa Hartzell, upper secondary school teacher, Stockholm
Jessica Andersson Sjöstrand, upper secondary school teacher, Växjö
Marie Rehnström, middle school teacher, Härryda
Johanna Stigmark, SFI teacher, Södertälje
Maria Knutsson-Torvaldsen, primary school teacher, Ockelbo
Frida Lotfi, upper secondary school teacher, Danderyd
Kenneth Pilström, retired teacher, Kil
Anders teacher, Norrköping
Cecilia Rehnqvist, teacher, Malmö
Petter Träff, high school teacher, Malmö
Maria Trulsson, teacher, Gothenburg
Kristina Broberg, elementary school teacher, Uddevalla
Nilla Wikberg, special educator, Uppsala
Elin Jonasson, teacher student, Mönsterås
Robert Alexandersson, middle school teacher, Kristinehamn
high school teacher Micke Hjalmarsson Motala
David Reljanovic, high school teacher, Borås
Edith Marelli, high school teacher, Malmö
Sophia Ivanovic, teacher Nässjö
Robert Svensson, teacher Trollhättan
Sara Berggren, teacher, Sundsvall
Nicklas Ivarsson, teacher, Trelleborg
Per Olov Nordin, philosophy Master, retired, Söderhamn
Susanne Lindgren, speci Luleå
Anna Svensson, high school e-teacher, Skara
Magdalena Gyllenlood, high school teacher, Nacka
Marie Sandström, high school teacher, Vara
Maria Sköld, teacher, Haninge
Amanda Terlevic, high school teacher, Gothenburg
Kerstin Meurling, teacher, Kulturskolan, Sundsvall
Maria L. Persson, teacher, Varberg
Susanne Lärkeryd, teacher,
Skellefte Utter, upper secondary school teacher, Gothenburg
Elin Bergström, leisure teacher, Sundsvall
Nicolas Micic, teacher, Huddinge
Jennie Frisk, primary school teacher, Uppsala
Åsa Fondin, special teacher, Landskrona
Stina Carlsson, primary school teacher ma / NO 1-7, Dalsed
Johanna Leinås, teacher, Täby
Christer Hällkvist, high school teacher, Linköping
Susan Persson-Payne, teacher, Eskilstuna
Jenny Svensson, high school teacher, Halmstad
Johan Fransson, high school teacher, Linköping
Staffan Melin, primary school teacher, Gothenburg
Karin Wilsson, principal, Mark municipality
Majlis Seppänen, teacher, Boden
Niclas Skott, teacher, Gothenburg
Anton Svensson , teacher, Växjö
Klas Holmgren, teacher, Borlänge
My Landberg, teacher, Järfälla
Joakim Lindström, teacher, Huddinge
Josefine Forsberg, primary school teacher, Umeå
Kerstin Rödén, special educator, Östersund
Helena Eidenson, primary school teacher, Sigtuna
Rolf Back, mathematics teacher, Falun
Lars Persson, technology teacher, Sölvesborg
Ola Lindholm, teacher, Karlstad
Marcus Erhagen, high school teacher, Örebro
Göteborg Hjertén, teacher
Finnhigh school teacher, Uppsala
Jenny Dahlin, high school teacher, Mark municipality
Eva Almestad, preschool teacher, Sundsvall
Olof Dahl, fil. dr, high school teacher, Mölndal
Åsa Marmebro, teacher, Kungälv
Ulrihca Malmberg, high school teacher, Stockholm
Sara Fransson, high school teacher, Huddinge
Debora Påhlsson, teacher, Båstad
Birgitta Olsson, teacher, Karlskrona
Karin Linderyd, high school teacher, Motala