(edit title) Bladins School in Malmö We need a new board. Options

[viking_sunrise]

Bladins School is a combination International and Swedish school based in Malmö.

The Board for Years has always been controlled by the Swedish side of the School.

The Swedish side is not allowed to charge fees to its students. However, the International side is able to charge a fee to its students.

The Swedish side has been bleeding the international side of funds for years. Their gang leader and vice chair has used intimidation and fear tactics against parents from the international side for some time. One of the current fear tactics by the vice chair, is that the Bank may remove loans for the school if there is not continuity in the board. This type of fear tactic is reprehensible and if it were true that the bank would actually do that it would be a PR nightmare for them.

There are great examples of this bleeding today.

1. The international side is paying for a Swedish side teacher.

2. The gym receives sports equipment money every year. The Swedish side received double the amount of the international side even though many international families who are only here for a short time have no real realistic way of integrating their children into Swedish sports programs.

3. We don’t know all the details because the Vice Chair has made it very difficult for parents to have access to the numbers. This is in light of the structure of the organization, where the parents are the ones with the supposed real power.

I believe the policies by the Vice Chair and his lackeys are short sighted and are primarily designed to raise capital for Bladins as a whole to where many of the funds are siphoned from the International side and go to the Swedish side of the school.

The Incompetency and Negligence of the Bladins Board.

The board functionally is highly incompetent. The board built a playground for the new location this year. Originally, the playground was set to cost 200,000 SEK. The playground ended up costing over 1,800,000 SEK. 1,600,000 SEK over budget!!! So I am clear, it went 9 times over budget.

Every yeas the board absolves themselves of any responsibility from their decisions over the last year. They do this at the annual meeting in May. This year they should not be allowed to avoid their responsibilities without any recourse. The vice chair as head of the board and head of finances should be held accountable. In fact, all members should be held accountable. The head and leader of the board should take more responsibility than other board members. As there are 8 board members if the amount were divided equally it would be 200,000 SEK each. They must be held accountable for their decisions and impacting the education of our children in a negative way due to their errors.

Malmö and the greater Oresund region is in need of seats for international students.

· Many Swedish expats are coming home from years abroad where their children only were taught in English. These expats are likely to be stationed abroad again and its not a realistic option for these people to place their kids in a Swedish school.

· Many companies who are looking for expats are not able to select their ideal candidates because those candidates have children and there are not enough seats for those children in schools.

What needs to change!

In light of the need and importance of attracting quality expats we need to ensure that Bladins offers its International Students the best education possible and that there is equity and transparency in the system.

1. Bladins needs board members to be held accountable for their decisions.

2. Bladins needs to have financial transparency and separate budgets for the international side of the school and the Swedish side of the school.

3. If the Swedish side of the school moves to the new location they will be a drain on resources of the school. Those same seats would be better filled by international students who pay additional money to the school. The Swedish side must find a way to raise funds on their own and pay their share if they expect to move and be a part of the school.

The past and current state of Bladins.

The Swedish side of the school has held back the development and progress of the International side of the school for years. Their has been a great deal of division and friction between the international and Swedish side. This energy would have been much better spent improving an independent Swedish school and an independent International school.The Swedish side follows the Swedish educational model the International side follows the IB model. There are few similarities. There are few synergies found by the schools being together although the school tries very hard to keep the appearance there is a benefit.

Bladins is drawing attention from politicians and prominent business leaders in the community. These players are new stakeholders in Bladins and are interested primarily in the International Side of the school. Its important if those stakeholders are going to support Bladins that they are representing a fair and just school.

The international parents are slowly becoming more organized. There are cliques and divisions within this milieu. These parents need to come together and unite as it is in their best interests. The old guard needs to embrace the new stakeholders.

In Summary,

Bladins is attracting more sophisticated and longer term expats. In turn these expats are starting to unite and approach the problems facing the International side using the legal arsenal at their disposal. Its always been an uphill battle and the International side has lost most every one we fought. I think now though we have a better chance than ever at winning and finally gaining a fair and equitable education environment for the international side of the school.

[007]

OMG

krigeren, you can't be serious with yet another sock personality. why couldn't you post this as yourself?

enough of creating aliases and starting a million threads to serve your needs and ego.

[007]

because seriously...this is a template of your "typical" post

Bladins School is a combination International and Swedish school based in Malmö.The Board for Years has always been controlled by the Swedish side of the School.The Swedish si ... (show full quote)

Bladins School is a combination International and Swedish school based in Malmö.

The Board for Years has always been controlled by the Swedish side of the School.

The Swedish side is not allowed to charge fees to its students. However, the International side is able to charge a fee to its students.

The Swedish side has been bleeding the international side of funds for years. Their gang leader and vice chair has used intimidation and fear tactics against parents from the international side for some time. One of the current fear tactics by the vice chair, is that the Bank may remove loans for the school if there is not continuity in the board. This type of fear tactic is reprehensible and if it were true that the bank would actually do that it would be a PR nightmare for them.

There are great examples of this bleeding today.

1. The international side is paying for a Swedish side teacher.

2. The gym receives sports equipment money every year. The Swedish side received double the amount of the international side even though many international families who are only here for a short time have no real realistic way of integrating their children into Swedish sports programs.

3. We don’t know all the details because the Vice Chair has made it very difficult for parents to have access to the numbers. This is in light of the structure of the organization, where the parents are the ones with the supposed real power.

I believe the policies by the Vice Chair and his lackeys are short sighted and are primarily designed to raise capital for Bladins as a whole to where many of the funds are siphoned from the International side and go to the Swedish side of the school.

The Incompetency and Negligence of the Bladins Board.

The board functionally is highly incompetent. The board built a playground for the new location this year. Originally, the playground was set to cost 200,000 SEK. The playground ended up costing over 1,800,000 SEK. 1,600,000 SEK over budget!!! So I am clear, it went 9 times over budget.

Every yeas the board absolves themselves of any responsibility from their decisions over the last year. They do this at the annual meeting in May. This year they should not be allowed to avoid their responsibilities without any recourse. The vice chair as head of the board and head of finances should be held accountable. In fact, all members should be held accountable. The head and leader of the board should take more responsibility than other board members. As there are 8 board members if the amount were divided equally it would be 200,000 SEK each. They must be held accountable for their decisions and impacting the education of our children in a negative way due to their errors.

Malmö and the greater Oresund region is in need of seats for international students.

· Many Swedish expats are coming home from years abroad where their children only were taught in English. These expats are likely to be stationed abroad again and its not a realistic option for these people to place their kids in a Swedish school.

· Many companies who are looking for expats are not able to select their ideal candidates because those candidates have children and there are not enough seats for those children in schools.

What needs to change!

In light of the need and importance of attracting quality expats we need to ensure that Bladins offers its International Students the best education possible and that there is equity and transparency in the system.

1. Bladins needs board members to be held accountable for their decisions.

2. Bladins needs to have financial transparency and separate budgets for the international side of the school and the Swedish side of the school.

3. If the Swedish side of the school moves to the new location they will be a drain on resources of the school. Those same seats would be better filled by international students who pay additional money to the school. The Swedish side must find a way to raise funds on their own and pay their share if they expect to move and be a part of the school.

The past and current state of Bladins.

The Swedish side of the school has held back the development and progress of the International side of the school for years. Their has been a great deal of division and friction between the international and Swedish side. This energy would have been much better spent improving an independent Swedish school and an independent International school.The Swedish side follows the Swedish educational model the International side follows the IB model. There are few similarities. There are few synergies found by the schools being together although the school tries very hard to keep the appearance there is a benefit.

Bladins is drawing attention from politicians and prominent business leaders in the community. These players are new stakeholders in Bladins and are interested primarily in the International Side of the school. Its important if those stakeholders are going to support Bladins that they are representing a fair and just school.

The international parents are slowly becoming more organized. There are cliques and divisions within this milieu. These parents need to come together and unite as it is in their best interests. The old guard needs to embrace the new stakeholders.

In Summary,

Bladins is attracting more sophisticated and longer term expats. In turn these expats are starting to unite and approach the problems facing the International side using the legal arsenal at their disposal. Its always been an uphill battle and the International side has lost most every one we fought. I think now though we have a better chance than ever at winning and finally gaining a fair and equitable education environment for the international side of the school. ... (hide full quote)

[Puffin]

Good try Krigeren

[007]

good try? pathetic if you ask me.

[Mo]

evidence ?

[007]

eh, the set up of the whole post
listing every argument numerically
posting a paragraph in bold to highlight key points
using "in summary" to summarize (which cracks me up sometimes because krigeren can put "in summary" in the middle of a marathon run off.

i don't have admin privileges to see IP addresses, but i doubt krigeren would be silly enough to allow the IP addresses to match either using a proxy server or even a borrowed computer or public one.

there have been a rash of "one of" posters who start threads that krigeren gets passionately involved in and he's even challenged mods to try to match IPs which of course won't match.

i'd have to say there could be reason to doubt or need more evidence to establish those posters/trolls/socks are one and the same, but this was literally written via a krigeren template.

[gplusa]

oh, and joins the same day.

[krigeren]

OMG krigeren, you can't be serious with yet another sock personality. why couldn't you post this as yourself?enough of creating aliases and starting a million threads ... (show full quote)

OMG

krigeren, you can't be serious with yet another sock personality. why couldn't you post this as yourself?

enough of creating aliases and starting a million threads to serve your needs and ego. ... (hide full quote)

Good try Krigeren

good try? pathetic if you ask me.

oh, and joins the same day.

It was not me. It was my wife.

I see most of the above commentators are really good at making a mountain out of a mole hill and hijacking the thread.

[Puffin]

Interesting that you and your wife have the same writing style - is it a family trait?

According to the one of the first posts I remember from you on the Kronofogden thread you were facing having to give up the private school as Kronofodgen were so unreasonably refusing to consider the 70,000-100,000 that Bladins costs per year as 'essential' expenditure to be allowed under the bankrupcy proceedings

Seems that bankrupcy is the way to go in Sweden with it allowing huge school fees and to get a state subsidised workforce for your 'business'

[krigeren]

This is why you have no business being a moderator/admin on this forum because you are not objective, take sides, and act like a troll.

First, you are ignorant because you do not know the cost of the school.

Second, you like to rub things in to people who you don't agree with.

Considering a moderator should adhere to some form of standard, some form of objectivity, you fail miserably in your role.

[007]

the thing that has always made the Local a dynamic place has been the unmoderated atmosphere which almost got killed with the update and the new "mod/admin" crap.

if i remember correctly there was a backlash against it, we lost a number of our regular posters including two who were the other "mods" and the poor puffs, bless her, while still carrying the moniker doesn't seem to do much about it -in true TL fashion. it's probably why the site has come back a bit.

but silly krigeren, you really ought to tell your wife to not copy your word choice, structure etc way of writing--bit confusing for us.

and i remember your going on about the school and your IB requirements yada yada.

[007]

hey viking sunrise. how does your outstanding debt play into the payment to your children's school? do you guys pay the international fees or are you under the swedish system?

[viking_sunrise]

And what are you?

[byke]

Bladins School is a combination International and Swedish school based in Malmö.The Board for Years has always been controlled by the Swedish side of the School.The Swedish si ... (show full quote)

Bladins School is a combination International and Swedish school based in Malmö.

The Board for Years has always been controlled by the Swedish side of the School.

The Swedish side is not allowed to charge fees to its students. However, the International side is able to charge a fee to its students.

The Swedish side has been bleeding the international side of funds for years. Their gang leader and vice chair has used intimidation and fear tactics against parents from the international side for some time. One of the current fear tactics by the vice chair, is that the Bank may remove loans for the school if there is not continuity in the board. This type of fear tactic is reprehensible and if it were true that the bank would actually do that it would be a PR nightmare for them.

There are great examples of this bleeding today.

1. The international side is paying for a Swedish side teacher.

2. The gym receives sports equipment money every year. The Swedish side received double the amount of the international side even though many international families who are only here for a short time have no real realistic way of integrating their children into Swedish sports programs.

3. We don’t know all the details because the Vice Chair has made it very difficult for parents to have access to the numbers. This is in light of the structure of the organization, where the parents are the ones with the supposed real power.

I believe the policies by the Vice Chair and his lackeys are short sighted and are primarily designed to raise capital for Bladins as a whole to where many of the funds are siphoned from the International side and go to the Swedish side of the school.

The Incompetency and Negligence of the Bladins Board.

The board functionally is highly incompetent. The board built a playground for the new location this year. Originally, the playground was set to cost 200,000 SEK. The playground ended up costing over 1,800,000 SEK. 1,600,000 SEK over budget!!! So I am clear, it went 9 times over budget.

Every yeas the board absolves themselves of any responsibility from their decisions over the last year. They do this at the annual meeting in May. This year they should not be allowed to avoid their responsibilities without any recourse. The vice chair as head of the board and head of finances should be held accountable. In fact, all members should be held accountable. The head and leader of the board should take more responsibility than other board members. As there are 8 board members if the amount were divided equally it would be 200,000 SEK each. They must be held accountable for their decisions and impacting the education of our children in a negative way due to their errors.

Malmö and the greater Oresund region is in need of seats for international students.

· Many Swedish expats are coming home from years abroad where their children only were taught in English. These expats are likely to be stationed abroad again and its not a realistic option for these people to place their kids in a Swedish school.

· Many companies who are looking for expats are not able to select their ideal candidates because those candidates have children and there are not enough seats for those children in schools.

What needs to change!

In light of the need and importance of attracting quality expats we need to ensure that Bladins offers its International Students the best education possible and that there is equity and transparency in the system.

1. Bladins needs board members to be held accountable for their decisions.

2. Bladins needs to have financial transparency and separate budgets for the international side of the school and the Swedish side of the school.

3. If the Swedish side of the school moves to the new location they will be a drain on resources of the school. Those same seats would be better filled by international students who pay additional money to the school. The Swedish side must find a way to raise funds on their own and pay their share if they expect to move and be a part of the school.

The past and current state of Bladins.

The Swedish side of the school has held back the development and progress of the International side of the school for years. Their has been a great deal of division and friction between the international and Swedish side. This energy would have been much better spent improving an independent Swedish school and an independent International school.The Swedish side follows the Swedish educational model the International side follows the IB model. There are few similarities. There are few synergies found by the schools being together although the school tries very hard to keep the appearance there is a benefit.

Bladins is drawing attention from politicians and prominent business leaders in the community. These players are new stakeholders in Bladins and are interested primarily in the International Side of the school. Its important if those stakeholders are going to support Bladins that they are representing a fair and just school.

The international parents are slowly becoming more organized. There are cliques and divisions within this milieu. These parents need to come together and unite as it is in their best interests. The old guard needs to embrace the new stakeholders.

In Summary,

Bladins is attracting more sophisticated and longer term expats. In turn these expats are starting to unite and approach the problems facing the International side using the legal arsenal at their disposal. Its always been an uphill battle and the International side has lost most every one we fought. I think now though we have a better chance than ever at winning and finally gaining a fair and equitable education environment for the international side of the school. ... (hide full quote)

If that is the case, then I feel very sorry for you.
This is not uncommon in sweden and again shows the amount of double standards across the board. Situations like this should not happen. I hope that you find a solution.