This is about IQ. I have seen that muslims and Africans simply do not understand numbers and what they mean. I have asked an African to hand me a 13mm spanner and he could not, Only when I took paper and pen and showed him the shapes he needed to find could he get the right spanner. Its so much worse that we are been told.

SWEDEN
Nearly half of 15-year-old immigrant pupils lack basic reading and counting skills
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Previously, measurements have shown that a quarter of 15-year-olds in Sweden lack basic knowledge of mathematics and reading comprehension, something that generated headlines and debate. Now it turns out that the situation is in fact much worse.

A review of statistics that have not been published shows that the Pisa results are more alarming for pupils with a foreign background than first thought. Here it is not every four, but almost every other, 15-year-old who lacks basic knowledge of the three subject areas that Pisa tests.

In the 2021 Pisa survey, 45 per cent of immigrant pupils did not reach level 2 in reading comprehension, which is a basic level essential for further learning. An equal share in the group was below the base level in mathematics and science.


A comparison with the 2015 measurement shows that the gap between pupils with Swedish and foreign backgrounds has increased. The latter group is defined as born abroad or in Sweden with parents from another country.
'Very serious'

Anders Jakobsson is a professor of educational science at Malmö University and has followed the results since the first Pisa survey in 2000. Already in 2009, he warned about the situation and the new figures do not surprise him.

The negative trend has not reversed since. On the contrary, the tendency is that it increases. It is very, very serious," Anders Jakobsson told Vi teacher.

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Another who is concerned is Anna Smit, teacher in mathematics and NO at Särlaskolan, which is located in a so-called socio-economically vulnerable area in Borås where about 70 percent of the students have a foreign background.

It is catastrophic. Teachers and school staff are on their knees today. We needed more resources and completely different opportunities to divide students into smaller groups. Today, everyone ends up in my classroom, regardless of needs, language skills, home conditions and difficulties. It's impossible to reach everyone," she said.


The Swedish National Agency for Education believes that one explanation for the situation is that some foreign-born pupils have gone less in Swedish schools, but even when pupils who are not born in Sweden are exempted, a real gap remains between Swedish pupils and pupils born in Sweden with parents from another country.

Nor that the group comes to a greater extent from so-called socio-economically weaker homes can explain the whole difference.

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According to Carina Mood, professor of sociology at Stockholm University who has researched schooling for children and young people with a foreign background, the language can be crucial. If you have a different home language than Swedish and go to schools where many speak the same language makes you be surrounded much less by Swedish even though you are born in Sweden, she says. A weaker language development probably also makes one perform worse in other subjects, is her assessment.

The Swedish Teachers’ Association, Anna Olskog, believes that the Swedish school system is broken and must be reformed. For this to happen, the state must regain responsibility for the school and the profit and market school is phased out, she says.
The new normal

Up to 25 percent of the country's schools can today be defined as low-performing. They are characterized by a high proportion of immigrant pupils and pupils with special needs as well as a lower proportion of qualified teachers.

This autumn, new Pisa figures will be presented and Anders Jakobsson is pessimistic.

“The risk is that these numbers will be the new normal. Sweden was once a world leader in the compensatory mission. Unfortunately, I can't see that we're on our way back there.