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SD wants to be a new school party: "Tougher measures needed"

The Sweden Democrats want to focus on education policy, alongside migration and law and order. The Swedish school system is in free fall, says SD's party leader Jimmie Åkesson.

» Updated: 16 July 2024

» Published: 25 June 2024

SD wants to be a new school party: "Tougher measures needed"
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The Sweden Democrats want to focus on education policy, alongside migration and law and order.

The Swedish school system is in free fall, says SD leader Jimmie Åkesson.

The Sweden Democrats are launching their Almedalen Week in Visby and focusing on the Swedish school system.

The SD wants to restore calm in the classrooms, introduce more facts into teaching and "counteract the consequences of mass immigration".

Today, tomorrow's cold-blooded murderers are being recruited in Swedish schools, even at middle school level, says Jimmie Åkesson in his speech to an audience of around 2,000 people.

The party wants to take a tougher stance. Pupils who do not speak Swedish well enough or do not meet other knowledge requirements should be made to retake the year. Teachers should be given greater authority to "crack down" on those who disrupt. Offenders who bully or assault should be transferred.

"In free fall"

Åkesson believes that the school system is in a state of near free fall.

The results are appalling, the discipline is appalling. Much of this is a reflection of how society as a whole is developing. A paradigm shift is also needed in education policy, says the SD leader in an interview before the speech.

The SD wants to see a national government responsible for education and national funding for schools, with clear national guidelines and regulations.

Traditional Muslim clothing such as the niqab, burka and headscarf for teachers are not suitable for schools, according to the SD.

It's clear that if school staff wear symbols of women's oppression, it sends very strange signals. So I think it's highly inappropriate, says Åkesson.

Schools that do not comply with the SD's norms should be closed.

Whether it's Muslim free schools or politicised woke institutions – such things have no place in our Sweden, says Åkesson in the speech.

"Forced integration"

He also attacks the Social Democrats, claiming that the party is now talking about "forced relocation" of, for example, school pupils to mix the population.

This is forced integration of us Swedes in its most unpleasant form.

This is exactly where the big conflict line will be drawn in Swedish politics going forward. Forced integration into the Social Democrats' multicultural chaos, or demands for adaptation to Swedish norms and values.

The Social Democrats' party secretary, Tobias Baudin, thinks that the SD leader sounds like "a broken record player".

"If Jimmie Åkesson devoted a thousandth of the energy he spends talking about the Social Democrats to discussing how he intends to solve the market failures in education, the Swedish school system would look completely different today", he says.

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