The Christian Democrats are changing their stance on the issue of grades and now want to replace the F grade in school with a system that has more steps than today's.
"The F grade has in practice come to function as a hard boundary, which determines who gets to take the step to further studies and who gets knocked out", writes Mathias Bengtsson, education policy spokesperson, and Jakob Forssmed, deputy party leader, in a debate article in Dagens Nyheter.
They claim that the reason is that the F grade creates a sense of failure and increases the risk of mental illness and future unemployment.
"The general limit for upper secondary school eligibility should also be abolished. Instead, we want to introduce different eligibility levels depending on which education one wants to pursue further", write the article authors.
The Christian Democrats become the second governing party to change their stance on the issue. In September this year, The Liberals also came out in favor of introducing "a more nuanced system".
