Published 4 May 2024 at 08.31
Domestic. Students who are at risk of right-wing radicalization must be caught by the schools and made to change their opinion early in life. That is the government's promise “in the waves of Gubbängen”, reports Dagens Nyheter.
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It is no small proposal as the Minister of Education Lotta Edholm (L) and Education Minister Mats Perssons (L) will join after the Swedish government has now completed its so-called high-level round table talks about Gubbängen.
An introduction would, among other things, require extensive changes to the constitution because the form of government today prohibits schools from handling information about students' political opinions and from intervening against students based on their religious or political beliefs.
– There is a lack of routines and knowledge in our schools around how to deal with a student who has far-right views and extremism in general. It is a big problem, says Mats Persson to DN.
– The school must dare to intervene even in very difficult situations, says Lotta Edholm.
According to DN, Swedish schools are at the top in international surveys in terms of “conveying democratic values”. Something that is thus sharply different from its ability to convey knowledge, where the results in international PISA surveys instead give Swedish schools bottom marks among comparable countries.
But some schools have major problems with students adopting right-wing views early and in these “old working environments” and “democratic exclusion areas” the government now wants to intervene, according to DN.
– There are parts of society where these values do not reach at all, says Lotta Edholm to the newspaper.