Posted on 10/04/2024 6:13:09 AM PDT by george76
There are nearly a million people who are illiterate in Sweden, with immigration a major contributing factor..
The number of people who are illiterate in Sweden is expected to exceed 800,000 in winter of this year, with researchers expecting the number to soon reach 1 million, in large part due to mass immigration.
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currently around 780,000 people between the ages of 16 and 65 who are illiterate in Sweden, but this number is soaring.
“Each month, eight to ten illiterate students arrive,” said Rita Sommarkrans, SFI teacher in Västerås, to SVT. She added that if someone can’t read or write, it’s hard for them to find a place, pay their bills, or even book a doctor’s appointment.
“If this trend continues, we risk having an entire generation of young people who are effectively functionally illiterate,” wrote Minister of Education Johan Pehrson and Minister of School Affairs Lotta Edholm in an introductory article.
However, Swedish publication Fria Tider notes that the ministers are failing to explain what the main cause behind the massive illiteracy problem is in the country, which is mass immigration of illiterate adults from the Third World, which the allegedly conservative ruling government is failing to stop.
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many of these foreigners are bringing children or giving birth to children who are entering the Swedish school system. In some cities, Swedish children are already the minority in the school system, such as Mälmo. In fact, the situation has gotten so extreme in that city that city officials are proposing to teach in Arabic instead of Swedish, as Remix News reported in the past. However, such a move will only accelerate the problem of illiteracy and result in even deeper divisions in society.
Due to the falling literacy rates, Sweden is transforming its entire school system, making compulsory schooling 10 years instead of nine. In 2024, the number of students who were able to successfully complete the compulsory nine-year primary school continued to decrease.
Out of the slightly more than 120,000 Swedish students in primary school, 20,000 finished compulsory school in 2024 without graduating to upper secondary school. This segment of students will have little chance of getting a job or career, and as Swedish news portal Samnytt writes, many of them will turn to crime or welfare to get by.
“It is worrying that the results of 9th graders are decreasing. More students should complete primary school, not fewer. Failure to complete primary school is one of the main risk factors for unemployment and social exclusion,” said Anna Castberg, a department head at the Swedish Education Agency, in an official press release.
The Swedish National Education Office notes that the education level of the parents greatly influences the grades of the children. The lowest level of education is found among non-Western migrants, and consequently students of this group dominate among the worst performers. In addition, the education gap between Swedes and migrants is increasing instead of decreasing.
Most new citizens come from non-EU Muslim countries..
In fact, a new report from the Swedish Migration Agency now shows that Sweden has granted 660,362 migrants Swedish citizenship since 2015, with the vast majority coming from non-EU Muslim countries.
One of the top recipients of Swedish citizenship is Somalia, which is a country with one of the lowest levels of education in the world and an official illiteracy rate of 62.2 percent. In many cases, the people arriving from this country do not even know how to read and write in their own language, let alone Swedish. Data shows that 53,543 Somalians received citizenship since 2015, the second most of any country.
In first place was Syria, with 147,579 Syrians receiving citizenship since 2015, or 22 percent of the total.
Sweden’s performance in the PISA test has also drastically fallen, which will have dramatic results for Sweden’s economy over the coming years, as the country relies on a highly trained and high-tech workforce delivering high-value goods to the world market. In fact, the government was embroiled in a scandal in 2020 when its high PISA scores turned out to be a fraud.
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Swedish schools are now dangerous for teachers and students..
Swedish schools are also becoming more dangerous. The Swedish Teachers’ Union (Sveriges Lärare) issued a warning about the increased threats and violence facing teachers in Stockholm.
The number of serious incidents increased 36 percent to 159 cases in 2023 compared to 2022.
“There are threats ranging from ‘I’ll kill you’ and ‘I’ll shoot you’ to direct acts of violence,” said Simon Sandström, the union’s security officer, in an interview with Swedish Radio.
Indeed
One of the top recipients of Swedish citizenship is Somalia
Slow Joe: “Only 1,000,000??? Hold my beer and watch THIS”
That AND a national tax rate of 24%.....the swedes must be thrilled.
“If this trend continues, we risk having an entire generation of young people who are effectively functionally illiterate...”
America already has this. It’s called a ‘Public Education.’ The solution from Our Betters? Keep throwing Taxpayer Dollars at it. Forever!
Unbelievably depressing.
The US to Sweden: Hold my beer.
Anyone in Europe (or the US now) that doesn’t see this as INTENTIONAL POPULATION REPLACEMENT needs to have their head examined.
And those same Europeans need to GET OVER their fear of what is called ‘Far Right’, as anyone pro-European is called today and understand that today’s ‘Far-Right’ has policies (Immigration, Grooming, Starting Wars against Russia, etc.) that, literally, EVERY MAINSTREAM PARTY in Europe had during the entire Cold War.
The Far Right that they should fear, the REAL Far Right could well emerge if the Globalists running the place keep locking out the pro-European politicians.
At what point, if ever, do the Swedes suddenly say “Wow, did we ever f-— this up big time! Now how do we fix it?”
A piquant observation, to be sure.
Cultural differences aside, illiteracy aside, can you imagine what a Tower of Babel language mess this must be and how unproductive it is? I wonder how much of a language mess our own immigration issues are causing in this country?
Problems because of language barriers are a real thing. In the trucking industry companies have to give a phone number to an 3rd party interpreter they give to non-English speaking drivers just so they complete business and transactions with English speaking businesses. It is the only way they can keep the truck up and rolling with THAT driver. And tell you what, there are a lot of misunderstandings and misunderstood intentions. When I was operating in the business I just would not even do business with drivers who could not communicate. But not all industries and businesses have this set up. I can just imagine what a mess our country is going to be soon just to do everyday business because of language barriers.
"Far Right" is a term with an impact similar to that of "pink slime," in that it conjures unsavory images completely at odds with the thing it describes.
And, dammit, one other thing:
If the REAL Far Right does come to power in Europe, the first people they’re going to round will be those running Europe now, for absolutely DESTROYING what was an idyllic continent.
Sweden is really a small country (by population).
There is only like 10 million Swedes. So a million illiterates is a huge percentage!
Up to WWI, Sweden was one of the poorest countries in Europe.(Due to the little ice age mostly). Many Swedes were starving and there was major emigration to the US. But, even then, they had good education.
They economy boomed afterwards, because of global warming and WWI and WWII neutrality.
Now, they are regressing on all fronts!
“Pink Slime”
Sounds like you’re supporting McDonald’s. Dude, THEY ARE HORRIBLE, no one at all should eat there. People should buy fresh food and grain-fed cattle locally - otherwise they’re TOTAL IDIOTS! (I only say this to fit-in with the elites here at FR)
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