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...runner-up studio for consecutive years is DreamWorks, with three. Miramax films snared the top prize in two of the past four years: The English Patient and Shakespeare in Love. Now comes Chocolat, an English-language movie with a French accent and a Swedish director (Lasse Hallstrom), a negligible film whose greatest asset is its studio logo...
...first glance, the semi-isolation of the Olofstorp contingent seems an indefensibly cynical attempt to insulate them from the ethnic and racial diversity that is increasingly the norm in Sweden. Ekenberg sees it differently. "We don't segregate. We have classes that are 50% immigrant and 50% Swedish," he insists. "We try to put them together as much as we can." He 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...
...Academic disparity between many of the immigrant and Swedish children further complicates the situation. Deputy headmaster Peter Holmqvist describes how vast the gulf can be, noting that some of the immigrants are refugees from war zones who are illiterate, even in their own language. "We have cases where newcomers arrive on the plane on Monday and on Wednesday they're here ready for school," he says. Placing children such as these in the same classes as the far more advanced students from Olofstorp is a practical impossibility...
...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 their Swedish counterparts, feel is compromised in a setting where the first language of most of the children is not the national...
...With a teenager's clear-eyed logic, Suman maintains that it is the parents who are least willing to confront that reality. "The children from Olofstorp don't have a bad attitude toward us; it's mostly the parents," she says. "They say that if the Swedish children don't form a joint class here, they will move them to another school." At the same time, she recognizes that the "Swedish" people are an integral part of Hjällboskolan. "You can't have a school with only immigrants," she explains, "because then the immigrants will be talking their...