Migrants’ children in Swedish schools are increasingly segregated – survey
Lindblom school in Hultsfred, Sweden © Reuters / Reuters Staff
Some Swedish schools have almost exclusively either foreign-born or Swedish children, according to a recent study. The increasing segregation leads to lower education levels and missed opportunities for the kids, officials warn.
Thousands of migrants’ children in Sweden are less and less likely to meet their Swedish classmates at school, according to a survey from the state-funded SVT TV channel. The study of 3,641 Swedish schools published last week shows four out of 10 schools have an imbalance in the ratio of migrant and Swedish children compared to the overall proportion in the given municipality.
Officials say segregation is real and that it directly affects students’ performance.
“We get an increased concentration of students based on social background and thus differences in terms of school performance,” Peter Fredriksson, chief of the Swedish National Agency for Education, said, commenting on the study. “You should have the same opportunities to succeed regardless of which school you go to. But it is not the case today.”
A 2017 report showed a sharp increase in the performance gap between migrant students and Swedish-born children, with socio-economic background and neighborhood being the key factors in the division.
Compulsory school education has been a crucial element of Sweden’s social welfare system since 1842. Every child was entitled to attend the nearest school to their place of residence. In the 1990s, private schools emerged and parents gained the right to choose the school. A 2018 report reveals that well-educated Swedish-born families tend to withdraw from schools where children of parents with low-level education and migrant backgrounds prevail.
According to the SVT’s survey, local government attempts to improve the situation – including measures such as school redistricting or merging several schools – have not led to the desired results, and the National Agency for Education statistics still shows uneven distribution of students within the same municipalities.
Migrants now constitute 25 percent
of students at Swedish schools
The report was met with a number of harsh reactions on social media, with some users complaining about violations of children’s rights. “Each student should be free to choose the school and should not pay the price for politicians and the media’s failure,” one person tweeted.
Sweden has faced a deluge of refugees and asylum seekers from Syria, Afghanistan, and other states in recent years. In 2015, a record-breaking 162,877 migrants entered the country. The influx forced the Swedish authorities to introduce border controls and stiffen immigration policies. Migrants now constitute 25 percent of students at Swedish schools, according to local media.
Migrants now constitute 10 percent
of students at German schools
Similar issues hit Germany, which opened its doors to asylum seekers in 2015. Every 10th student in Germany is a foreigner, according to 2018 state statistics.
Migrant children make up 90-100 percent of students
in some schools in western Germany
So how does this blend with integration? Is it not promoting a segregated society with much reduced pressure on migrants to assimilate? We know from the UK that 2nd generation Muslim immigrants tend to be more devout Muslims than their parents. This spells disaster for European culture and for Jews and Christians in many countries.
Gender segregation: UK Islamic school ‘stopping girls from having lunch until boys have eaten theirs’
Al-Hijrah school in Birmingham © Google
A Muslim school in Birmingham, England, is still enforcing gender segregation by ordering girls not to eat their lunch until the boys have finished theirs, UK government school inspectors have told MPs.
Al-Hijrah school was instructed to end the unlawful practice by the Court of Appeal in 2017. However, Luke Tryl, director of corporate strategy at Ofsted, the government body charged with carrying out school inspections, says the West Midlands school is still contravening gender segregation rules.
Tryl also told the Parliamentary Women and Equalities Committee that the school continues to teach from “very discriminatory texts... encouraging violence against women.”
'Very discriminatory texts', that would be the Quran.
Ofsted rated the school as “inadequate” in 2016, according to the Birmingham Mail. Court of Appeal Judges ruled a year ago that Al-Hijrah, which is funded by the Birmingham City Council and is currently in “special measures” (meaning the school has let standards drop below an acceptable level and will be monitored for improvements over a period of time), was in contravention of the Equalities Act 2010, due to discrimination against its students.
In a letter to the school in October 2018, Ofsted accused its leaders and managers of not taking “effective action” to alleviate its special measures status.
"The Court of Appeal rightly said that schools needed a transition period where they were segregating and yet still we have not just Al-Hijrah, but we have countless other schools, mixed schools which are segregating on the basis of sex,” Mr Tryl told MPs
Tryl added that while Ofsted can highlight segregation in its inspection reports, it was the responsibility of the Department for Education to enforce equality laws.
The government’s education body reported in 2018 that British values were being “actively undermined” by Islamic extremists using schools as a means of “indoctrinating impressionable minds.”
Here is another example of integration being undermined. Governments are loath to do anything about it but complain lest they be called racist. Fear of being called racist has enabled incredible evil in the UK and elsewhere in Europe. Muslim schools should be forbidden. They will come back to haunt Europeans.
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