In the municipality of Växjö young people may only seek municipal summer jobs if they have passing grades in math and Swedish. Moderaten Oliver Rosengren, who is the chairman of the committee for labour and welfare, believes that no other municipality set equally high standards. He is very happy.
”If we do not equip young people for the real labour market during the time we have the chance when they go to school, so preparing our Växjö young people worse. It is not good if we trick young people to believe that it is easy to get a job, for it is not,” he says to SVT, Sweden. And to illustrate thus the whole problem with Conservatives.
liberal reflexes, but the actual grundinstinkten is, nevertheless, that the policy means that an authority, educate people, often by – Oliver Rosengren calls it – ”to strengthen the momentum” in the vulnerable, to stop being vulnerable.
They think that the whip is the best of the carrot, and resembles in its worst moments still on the where the squire as His Alfredson portrayed in ”The musical the killer”, he who runs up a debt so big that the farmer Månsson will be forced to sell his only asset, a horse, in order to pay it. Whereupon the squire’s good-natured throwing the banknotes on the fire, and explains to the destitute farmer that it is not the money it’s all about, it’s the principle.
than a useless and right sadistic principle, when Conservatives put a spanner in the works for the young people who muddle along through life? Not ”strengthen the momentum”.
It is simply not true that politicians are ”preparing young people for the real job market” by preventing them to work.
Which, among other Rickard Ulmestig, associate professor of social work, points out: ”the Ability to get a feriejobb, which can provide important experience and references from an employer, perhaps this is extra important for the group that will go out of high school with incomplete grades, and that this reform would increase this weakness of the group’s opportunities to get work in the future, I would say, is pure nonsense.”
that politicians ”preparing young people for the real job market” by preventing them to work. It is reasonable, and most accurate, would be in place to let the labour market itself will tell who is employable and not.
Perhaps some of the pupils to the realization that they actually have to take school seriously, otherwise they will be executed in adulthood. But maybe some also in the practical working life get a chance to for once get to feel good at something? Perhaps brought to and with a dream, and with it a concrete goal to fight for?
the squire, where he sits at the town hall in Växjö and thinking out the principles that should teach the citizens a samhällsläxa.
