Word: llbo
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...Each morning these and other children from Olofstorp board a bus and make the 20-minute journey to Hjällbo, the immigrant enclave where the school is located. Despite their demographic dissimilarity, bucolic, middle-class Olofstorp and Hjällbo, which has the dubious distinction of being Sweden's poorest municipality, both fall under the administrative umbrella of the district of Lärjedalen for social services like education. Hjällboskolan is one of Lärjedalen's two public schools for children aged...
...question is, can you have a school in Lärjedalen with no immigrants? Plans are under way for a new middle school in Olofstorp that would eliminate the need for the village children's daily journey to Hjällbo. If it is built, Hjällboskolan may become the exclusively immigrant domain Ekenberg and others have tried to avoid. Of course, if it is built, Hjällbo's immigrant parents can also decide that it offers the best option for their children. The day may come when the bus commute is reversed, and Hjällbo...
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