Skolakuten started in the premises of the Münchenbryggeriet in Södermalm, stockholm 2013. Five years later, in the spring of 2018, opened a new unit in Engelbrektsskolan on Östermalm. Where deployed students who must be moved because of their behaviour. Often it is that they have been aggressive or one that acts out violently and disrupted teaching in the classroom.
On skolakuten stop the students between two and four weeks. Those who cannot return to their own school will get a place elsewhere. About 30 students a year have so big problems that they can not be handled in the classroom in elementary school and may come to skolakuten. For secondary school the figure is lower, during the 2018 shut down 16 students from the upper secondary school in Stockholm city.
” As it looks in the day, they are turned off, just disappears from the school and will be at home. The time could be better utilized, ” says Lotta Edholm.
to introduce skolakut even for high school students is that the business will build on voluntary participation from the student side. This is because compulsory attendance does not apply at the high school. In the primary school determines the principal if a student is to be moved to the skolakuten.
” We need to look at what we can offer to the students actually want to come to skolakuten and see it as a good opportunity. If it becomes good or bad depends on how the business is designed, we may test us simply. Something we must do for those who get off on the right track in life again.
Lotta Edholm (L), skolborgarråd in the city of Stockholm. Photo: Beatrice Lundborg
another challenge with the new business is all about how teaching should be up with the high school students studying at the various individual programs.
” We can’t keep teaching at the programme level, however, maybe we can look at whether there are any knowledge gaps, help with study and help with contact to the children – and youth psychiatry. These students often have devoted themselves to documents as they are not able to remain in their school during a period where we must find ways to break the pattern, says Lotta Edholm.
– it is Often about violence and threats against other students but also staff. Overall, it is a big problem in the school, there is just too much violence and threats. Therefore, it is important that the shut-offs occur. I give all support to principals who choose to turn off the students but it is also important that there is a receiving.
the Proposal to introduce skolakut even for high school students is put in the Stockholm city’s annual budget. It is now utbildningsnämndens task to investigate how operations are conducted. When such a boot can is long to be decided.
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