Blog Assignment 4.

Do not close the school Grunnebacka!

This school is on the countryside, about 35 kilometers from Kristinehamn. The village is called Rudskoga. It is much discussion whether the school should be closed or if it can be an independent school. The district wants to build a new school for children in the village Nybble. In the new school the children from Rudskoga, Bäckhammar and Nybble will go in.

Grunnebacka School has about 50 children/pupils, from pre-class to six grade. This school also has after school recreation. Recently a sport centre has been built close to the school where the children can have their sport activities. Parents to the children/pupils and other people in Rudskoga are working really hard for the school. They have been writing several of application for an independent school to the district. They have received one no but are now working on new application.

The district want to close the school because they think that the pupil number is too low and it cost too much money for the district to have these small schools. They also think that pupils/children learn more in a big class and even that the teaching is better.
I have been going in that school when I was a child. I loved that school and I don’t think I have learned less then the pupils in a big school have learned. I think to build a whole new school is unnecessary and expensive when we have one in Rudskoga that is working.

Grunnebacka School is a good working school with many good locals and a new sport centre and a beautiful nature around it. They have 400 meters to the forest and they have 200 meters to a lake called Skagern and they also have cows and sheep outside the classroom. I think that is a good environment for the children!

I think this is good arguments for the district to consider. Why build a new school when we have one that is working very well? To build a new school must cost huge amount of money.

//Emma