According to the Swedish Education Agency and individual investigators, the 2000st century's increasing school segregation and declining school results in general cannot be simply explained by increased immigration. The new thing that you see is a connection with the free school choice.
Free school choice is a liberal social experiment that divides and segregates. Active parents gather their study-motivated daughters and sons in certain schools. Others tend to gather in others. The social selection.
In the 1990s, Jan Björklund responded to concerns about the segregating consequences of the freedom of choice reforms with promises of "magnet schools": schools in vulnerable areas would be so good that the gifted would flock there.
That Björklund is now seen hiding behind the weakest, in order to appease a reform that favors the strongest, is distressing to say the least.
Either he can say that it is okay for strong students to create privileged – and tax-financed – islands for themselves. Or he evaluates the free school choice unconditionally. Expressen 9/5
No protected islands
The dean of schools Sten Svensson (SvD 120607) and Urban Bäckström, CEO of Svenskt Näringsliv, (SvD 120602 ) state that the school results also fall under the bourgeois government, and significantly so. A series of reports, both international and Swedish, show falling school results. There are several reasons, but "freedom of choice and the existence of for-profit school companies" are decisive factors.
The increased school segregation that the free choice of schools leads to deteriorates the level of knowledge also in general. In the Pisa studies, countries with large differences between schools have lower results than countries with smaller differences. "Since freedom of choice was introduced, Sweden has fallen from an absolute top place in equality to an average level and the results have followed downwards. "Even those students who discover that they have chosen the wrong school and change during their studies generally lower their results.
Read Sten Svensson's article Nature Chemical Biology.!