Want to introduce auxiliary classes for problem students • “Sweden’s schools are messier”
The Liberals want to investigate whether one should reintroduce what was previously called OBS classes.
The idea is that they should be renamed to auxiliary classes but again be for people who have a very hard time with school.
But the proposal is criticized.
– It scratches. The problem is not students who do not work in a classroom, the problem is that the school does not have enough resources to meet the students where they are, says the special teacher and school debater Davor Delic to TV4 News.
The teaching form with so-called OBS classes has been debated for decades.
The classes were introduced in the 1960s for students with different types of problems. They officially disappeared in the 1980s, partly because they were considered stigmatizing, but lived in improvised form in several parts of the country.
Now the Liberals with School Minister Lotta Edholm at the forefront want it to be investigated whether the classes should be introduced again.
Destroy for teachers and classmates
In that case, the classes would be renamed to auxiliary classes and be for students with great school difficulties and who interfere with the teaching for other students.
– Sweden’s schools are more messy than schools in other comparable countries. We have bigger problems with violence and harassment and many students with fairly large behavioral problems. I think it would be good if they went in a little less classes, she tells TV4 News.
“Few things are so stigmatizing”
School debater Davor Delic says that instead of moving students who have problems in school, they should go to the bottom of why they do not succeed.
– Most often it is students who feel outside, misunderstood. Then we have to solve that problem first, he says.
Does all the teachers really have time with it then?
– That’s what we have to make sure.
Lotta Edholm still believes that the students can succeed better in auxiliary classes where they are supported by well -educated teachers.
– There are few things that are as stigmatizing as the students end up in the corridor with an uneducated student assistant, or even worse become homeowners, she says.