(edit title) Bladins' Board : You are doing it all wrong. Shenanigans within the "provincial aristocracy" Options

[gplusa]

Does The Local not have some kind of procedure in place to stop bulk posting where clearly the sole intention is to make use of this site in order to get picked up by internet search engines ? If they don't have, I think it's time they did. I'm all for a robust debate, but that's clearly not the intentions of the OP.

[Hamsterdam]

Haven't you leant anything? The only standards on The Local are low ones.

[Puffin]

You are not getting the point. Where do you take your business when Bladins runs a monopoly on the MYP program in Malmö?

Set up you own IB school - pretty easy to do in Sweden especially if there are many families that agree with you

... then the war is not lost

[byke]

Actually, I usually have very opposing views to many people on here regarding education and must say that given your situation. I agree with Puffin.

I can't see any way of you ever getting a international school to similar standards of others.
But if you as a collective really looked into opening a school, it would put bladins on the Blackfoot and give em a good kick in the teeth if you were to either open up a school or be able to convince the local authorities that bladins is failing your children and in turn forces them to open up a new school.

[byke]

What do the kids do when they get to 15 then?
Don't they have a IB diploma section?

[SOIS.COM]

Set up you own IB school - pretty easy to do in Sweden especially if there are many families that agree with you. ... then the war is not lost

Not a bad idea.

Another school in Malmö has been waiting for political permission for some time to offer the MYP program.

There are a cleavage of parents who are looking into opening a second school. In Sweden its not a straightforward process for opening an international school that is IB certified...meaning its in the realm of private enterprise or the public sector not exactly free enterprise. In other words, politics and bureaucratic red tape hold the process up or deny it all together. In some cases this is a good thing in other cases not. For example, there are some IS run by the municipalities that receive extra income per pupul to cover the additional expenses for IS students...books in English, IB program fees, teachers with IB experience...however, the decision to open such schools is solely political.

There are western countries where it is very straightforward to start a school. Gather a petition from parents, submit a petition to local council, petition is approved, go to bank get loan, open school. Such schools run independently often perform better than state run schools and other times not. At the end of the day, in Sweden, I trust government schools more so than private schools to run the IB programs based solely on the mismanagement in private hands by the board at Bladins. And if the government schools mismanage the funds its the government that pays for it not the parents.

Overall, Sweden is doing a lot of things right in the areas of education, on the other hand the pinnacle of education in the Nordics by a healthy measure is the Finnish education system.

What do the kids do when they get to 15 then?. Don't they have a IB diploma section?

There is an IB diploma program in the kommun as well as in Lund that the students migrate to.

[Hisingen]

Hopefully SOIS.COM will draw a line under all this ranting. If not he will go on the troll list among so many others. At a guess there are very few readers who are interested in his one-man war.

Get a life, or you will end up like Trow.

[byke]

Thats a bit out of order isn't it?
Yes, it may seem like a defeated battle already to some.

However he is trying to shed light on an issue that obviously effects himself and others.
Calling a person a troll, because they represent something you may not agree with is wrong.

I really hope SOIS keeps reporting on this issue.
As it may help other parents understand some of the issues facing international residents of the area.

[SOIS.COM]

Hopefully SOIS.COM will draw a line under all this ranting. If not he will go on the troll list among so many others. At a guess there are very few readers who are interested ... (show full quote)

Hopefully SOIS.COM will draw a line under all this ranting. If not he will go on the troll list among so many others. At a guess there are very few readers who are interested in his one-man war.

Get a life, or you will end up like Trow. ... (hide full quote)

To begin with this is not a war, wars don't determine who is right only who is left. Nor is it fought by 1 person. There are some people filing various cases, others talking to reporters, others compiling more evidence, and as always in every movement a bunch of people doing nothing because they are either too afraid, too indifferent or too deft at making some other excuse as to what is more important to them in their life then their kids education to get involved.

Keep in mind over 100 parents voted against the board at the AGM. Dozens have voted no confidence in the board and dozens have singed a petition in support of the teachers in questioning the irrationality of the board in reducing the size of the international school.

There is nothing that has been presented here that is not based on fact, if it is not been based on fact it is generally labelled as conjecture. For example, its a fact that the school has been stealing money from the international side for years and giving it to the Swedish side.

Conjecture would be tracing back the 150 years of Bladins and its association with the noble class of Sweden and that noble class still believes it has rights above and beyond the average citizen of Sweden, one of those right being stealing money out of the pocket of international families to better fund their child's education.

Another bit of conjecture would be looking at one of the new board member's relationship to the moderate party in southern Sweden. The vice chair of Moderate party In Tygelsjö, where the board member lives, apparently had a profitable side income by importing used American cars from California stuffed with cocaine and received 14 years behind bars. Any coincidence that the new board member owns a Porsche imported from guess where? Wonder how he will account for that? '-)

The last two points of conjecture are an attempt by rational people to explain why people believe they can bully, harass, and steal from other people and get away with it... while absolutely conjecture, inbred noble lines and being high on cocaine are two plausible explanations, yet not proven and can be considered part of the rumor mill.

In sum, overall the points posited in this thread are largely true and fact with a certain amount of conjecture that is often labelled as such.