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full screen The moderates and the party’s education policy spokesperson Josefin Malmqvist follow L’s and KD’s swings in the F grade issue. Archive image. Photo: Caisa Rasmussen/TT
The moderates also waver on the issue of the F rating and want it scrapped, reports SVT Nyheter.
– We see that today’s grading system is not fair, says Josefin Malmqvist (M), education policy spokesperson.
The announcement comes after the Christian Democrats announced the same turnaround.
KD and M thus become the second and third government parties respectively to change from wanting to keep the F, the school grade for failing, to wanting to remove it.
– The important thing is that effort should always pay off, even for the students who may have it a little tougher at school, says Josefin Malmqvist to SVT Nyheter.
The Liberals were the first to swing and announced in September that they want to scrap the F rating.
In February, the government’s investigators are expected to present a proposal for a new ten-point rating scale to replace today’s six-point (AF).
The Sweden Democrats, the fourth party in the Tidö collaboration, want to wait for the investigation before taking a position on the future of the F rating.
“However, it is important that a new grading system guarantees that the students who are eligible for upper secondary school really have the prior knowledge required for upper secondary studies, otherwise the problems will only be moved forward three years”, writes SD in a comment to SVT.