the DN told me on Monday about the Hjulsta School where more than half a year received 43 notifications of threats and violence. According to lärarfacket is, the incidents were directly linked to staff at the school makes use of the so-called lågaffektivt of the staff when the students are rowdy.
Now requires the Conservatives education spokesperson Kristina Axén Olin, a statement of the method and its implications.
“I took up the problem with lågaffektivt treatment of the teaching method on the education council after reading about this and was horrified notifications received at the school,” she says.
is an approach that aims to minimize conflicts, and to not unwittingly escalate conflict. One of the basic principles is the idea that affect is contagious – if the staff maintains the calm so the child becomes quiet.
“It is clear that the working method should be used in well-functioning schools, but on schools that are already hard hit by threats and violence, it is irresponsible to apply the method,” says Kristina Axén Olin, who points out that the Swedish school is facing an acute situation.
the question of order in the school to get more fit.
– There are many in the educational community, which calls for right working methods for how to respond to students both in the classroom and outside, ” says Kristina Axén Olin.
Heléne Hodges, principal of Hjulsta school, says that the work method can be applied, and that there are schools who use it with good results. She also believes that one can not draw conclusions on the working method based solely on the incidents that occurred at the Hjulsta school.
I have previously used this method and seen that it works. It’s about working with many different tools. Everything from code of conduct to the consequences under the education act.
” We will continue to use it. It’s about reading each situation and how to act. We will also continue to evaluate and prevent such situations being repeated.
Roger Haddad (L), skolpolitisk spokesperson and vice-chairman of the parliamentary education committee, has during the last month raised the issue about the study environment, and stöket in the school. He is now calling for a ordningskommission.
– to get a national assessment on the situation, we propose a national ordningskommission specifically looking at issues like study environment, and order, ” says Roger Haddad.
with schools and lärarfacket does he find that some issues have become bortprioriterade in the debate. Problems with right order and the treatment of students in school is a problem that should be discussed more, ” he says.
lärarfacket communicated to me is that the threats and violence of various nature increases. My fear is that we have a teaching staff who do not dare to intervene and maintain order in the school. Our experience is that teachers are afraid to be notified of, for example, a parent if the student becomes offended to be reprimanded.