It’s a bit over-simplifying things, but essentially not wrong.
sisuaibot on
Young Finnish teen boys don’t wanna study. And they don’t need to.
snow-eats-your-gf on
Schools are the same in Finland.
Non-EU students pay for higher education.
The tone of this picture is strange.
punppis on
Rich pay more taxes. Thats it. Never heard that anyone invested in a school. Thats probably illegal lol.
Not true.
Acceptable-Yogurt949 on
First part is somewhat right, the rest is bullshit.
Salmivalli on
We have private schools that have tuition. Public system is so good though that rich wouldn’t get more by putting their kids in private school.
Glittering-Bat-1128 on
Not entirely true anymore. Rich people are moving out of certain areas to get their children into better schools.
orbitti on
Yes, and no. We have virtually(* only public schools with equal syllabus and funding. However it varies a bit from community to community and some schools get additional funding to combat social problems in the area..
It also means that those with means shop school districts. It is not really the schools, but the other students and their parents that are avoided. Typically areas with high low income and/or 1st and 2nd generation immigrants are being avoided. Also, often referred as S2 (Finnish as second language) students.
(*
There are a few international schools or ones that follow different pedagogic philophy, but they are in really small minority.
Total_disregard_for on
Rich people still attempt to get their kids to segregated schools. Sure, it’s much more difficult here than in the GB for example, but they still have various means for doing so (moving to a rich neighbourhood, paying for tutorship to get kids into schools with heavy emphasis in the arts etc).
I don’t blame them. Sometimes the option is a classroom full of bullies where half of them don’t speak fluent finnish, and refuse to consider female teachers as legit authorities.
So while that isn’t technically false – or a lie – the truth is much more nuanced and cynical.
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It’s a bit over-simplifying things, but essentially not wrong.
Young Finnish teen boys don’t wanna study. And they don’t need to.
Schools are the same in Finland.
Non-EU students pay for higher education.
The tone of this picture is strange.
Rich pay more taxes. Thats it. Never heard that anyone invested in a school. Thats probably illegal lol.
Not true.
First part is somewhat right, the rest is bullshit.
We have private schools that have tuition. Public system is so good though that rich wouldn’t get more by putting their kids in private school.
Not entirely true anymore. Rich people are moving out of certain areas to get their children into better schools.
Yes, and no. We have virtually(* only public schools with equal syllabus and funding. However it varies a bit from community to community and some schools get additional funding to combat social problems in the area..
It also means that those with means shop school districts. It is not really the schools, but the other students and their parents that are avoided. Typically areas with high low income and/or 1st and 2nd generation immigrants are being avoided. Also, often referred as S2 (Finnish as second language) students.
(*
There are a few international schools or ones that follow different pedagogic philophy, but they are in really small minority.
Rich people still attempt to get their kids to segregated schools. Sure, it’s much more difficult here than in the GB for example, but they still have various means for doing so (moving to a rich neighbourhood, paying for tutorship to get kids into schools with heavy emphasis in the arts etc).
I don’t blame them. Sometimes the option is a classroom full of bullies where half of them don’t speak fluent finnish, and refuse to consider female teachers as legit authorities.
So while that isn’t technically false – or a lie – the truth is much more nuanced and cynical.