Compulsory preschool year for six-year-olds to be replaced with extra year in primary school from 2028
Children in Sweden are to start school at six years old from 2028, a year earlier than at present, in an overhaul of the country’s education system that signals a switch from play-based teaching for younger children.
The government has announced plans to replace a compulsory preschool year for six-year-olds known as förskoleklass with an additional year in grundskola (primary school).
The centre-right coalition government, led by the Moderates and backed by the far-right Sweden Democrats, announced the plan before the presentation of the 2025 budget, due on Thursday. The plan dates back to the previous government and is also backed by the left-leaning Social Democrats.
Sweden is in general a no-fun zone. Gotta have a license to have fun.
Also the school system teaches kids to be good little drones.
Kids in Sweden going to school at pretty much the same age as kids in a lot of the rest of the world means Sweden is anti-fun?
That’s bullshit, it’s fun just in different ways.
Sweden is coffee and biscuits while the US is cocaine with meth as a treat.
The system is all over the place, it’s safe for them to be drones, but if they show any potential they get fired up the railgun of intense academics like you can’t believe, they have some absolutely incredible engineers and scientists, and as a percentage of their population it’s almost unheard of.
The downside is after school they tend to leave for the US or elsewhere, the actual job opportunities for world-class scientists and engineers in Sweden are decent, but their yield of talent far, FAR outstreteches the economic capacity to carry them.
They have the talent pool of West Germany with the population of, well, Sweden (10.5m, it’s tiny).
