I live in Sweden and have 3 kids aged 8, 10 and 12 (just finished grade 2, =
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and 5) and they all passed the cm in a m test. I actually didn't think that=
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youngest would but she did.

But you are right, I think the education system has become worse. Perhaps n=
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the education as such but there must be something wrong when kids can go ni=
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years (and sometimes even more) in school and they still can't read and wri=
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properly. I just don't understand how these kids can fall through the syste=
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unnoticed (or is it uncared for?).

Perhaps one reason is that the classes tends to get bigger and bigger. The =

educationalist time spent on a single pupil gets smaller and smaller.

I think another reason is that the teacher profession isn't very high value=
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It is not seen as a high status job - especially not teachers for the young=
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children. This is a bit strange since todays children are a nations best fu=
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asset. Raise the salaries for teachers and you will find that in the long t=
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it would be very benificial for the nation. But that is perhaps the root of=
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problem - politicians don't tink in long terms today.

/Ruben

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> >
> > To put things even worse, the pupils in a 9th grade public school here
> > in Sweden does not know how many cm (centimeters) is a m (meter).
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> That's odd.  We here in the USofA keep getting told by our news media =

> that we have the
> worst education system in the world.
> Carey

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