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...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...
...says the main reason the children from Olofstorp pursue most of their studies together is the school's policy of keeping incoming classes as intact as possible, regardless of where the students hail from. That is why Katarina, whose home is in Hammarkullen, an area in Lärjedalen where the balance between the immigrant and native populations is fairly evenly divided, has always studied alongside non-Swedish children...
...possibility for Olofstorp parents, a growing network of private schools-heavily subsidized by the government-now gives them a range of choices. Ekenberg estimates that a fifth of the children from Olofstorp attend private schools. "A surprisingly high percentage of immigrant parents also choose private schools," notes Lärjedalen official ?sten Carlson. "If you thought they are forced to choose [public school] because they don't know any better, it is simply not so." Interestingly, for immigrant parents the key criterion in selecting a private school is usually the quality of Swedish language instruction, a subject which they, like...
...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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