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American dad who moved to Sweden with his young daughter reveals the staggering differences in European school system that ultimately forced his family to RETURN to the US
DAILY MAIL ^ | 11 November 2023 | RAVEN SAUNT

Posted on 11/11/2023 6:11:36 PM PST by george76

Andy Kryza was offered the chance to relocate with his wife and young daughter..

The family, who had idealized Scandinavia

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An American dad who moved to Sweden with his wife and young daughter has revealed the staggering differences in the school systems which ultimately forced the family back to the US.

Andy Kryza, from Los Angeles, said that he 'felt like he had won the lottery' after being offered the chance to relocate with his wife and young daughter.

The family had idealized Scandinavia, believing that Sweden was 'a utopia with happy people, gorgeous nature, and world-class schools.'

But he has since candidly laid bare that 'the grass wasn't necessarily greener' after making the move in 2021 - only to return two years later.

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the pace of learning turned out to be a shock.

'We soon learned that in the early years of school, teachers mostly prioritized socialization and play,' ..

'We worried that our daughter would regress and forget the core math and science she had excelled with but assumed things would progress in year two. They didn't.'

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Unexpectedly, our daughter began complaining about a lack of challenges.'

Andy mused that the pace was likely due to the teachers' policy of not letting kids fall behind as they 'paused advancement to ensure everybody was on the same page.'

He branded it as 'admirably progressive' but by eight years old he said his daughter 'couldn't do simple division and once asked us what science was.'

'When addressing our concerns with teachers, we were met with a cold: "This is how we do things here."

'Eventually, we had to decide whether to trust the Swedish system or move back to the US. We chose the latter to avoid letting her get too far behind.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arth; education; europe; nitwits; school; schoolsystems; socialism; sweden
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To: Bullish

I would say “bad bath water” is much to kind, more like rancid/rotten sewage with floaters.


61 posted on 11/11/2023 11:43:05 PM PST by 5th MEB
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To: MinorityRepublican

half of Ethiopia is Christian, the other half muzzi...IIRC...


62 posted on 11/12/2023 12:30:34 AM PST by cherry
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To: Bullish
if we are pushing/encouraging our kids to be good at school, to study hard, etc what are we to do when colleges won't accept them because of their skin color?...or they can't get a job as an air traffic controller because of their skin color?....

achievement and merit mean nothing...

63 posted on 11/12/2023 12:32:24 AM PST by cherry
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To: BobL
"That was true, but then they let women vote."

well soon, they will have all the women in burkas, stoning them to death if they talk to a male, so then you'll be happy....

64 posted on 11/12/2023 12:39:00 AM PST by cherry
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To: Keyhopper

Saw a honey wagon that said on the back:
Septic tanks pumped, Pools filled…..
Not the same truck


65 posted on 11/12/2023 1:15:16 AM PST by coincheck (Salvation is for today, not tomorrow, you might not make it that far.....)
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To: null and void

Rodney Dangerfield? Henny Youngman? Groucho Marx?


66 posted on 11/12/2023 1:22:47 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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Oh I missed.....


67 posted on 11/12/2023 1:24:06 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Sequoyah101

“What was really funny is that he didn’t expect an old f—t like me to climb up there and look.”

Great story—in the lands of socialism folks just get in the habit of “mailing it in” and he expected you to do that.

Oops.


68 posted on 11/12/2023 1:27:46 AM PST by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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To: george76

BUMP


69 posted on 11/12/2023 2:53:11 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: Falconspeed

True...they gave us zero...and algebra.


70 posted on 11/12/2023 3:41:21 AM PST by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

In fact, it was Muslims who gave us much of what we have in math.


Totally false - they only preserved prior knowledge that appealed to them. All of the math daring scholars “preserved” came from Egypt, Greece, and Persia (Iran). There were only a few minor advancements by Musselmen.

All knowledge that did not appeal, they destroyed in accordance with the muslim dictate: if it is in the koran, it is superfluous and must be destroyed, if it is not in the koran, it is anathema and must be destroyed.

“The Musloid students are learning math in their schools because their parents aren’t stupid.”

So far this has resulted in the invention of the cell phone bomb.

The average town library has more books than can be found in entire musselmen countries.

The best seller in all muslim countries is “Mein Kampf”.

Geniuses, one an all.


71 posted on 11/12/2023 3:45:44 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: nwrep

they gave us algebra ...which the stole from Persia

The also gave the wholesale destruction of classical western Christianity and civilization & literature; the deaths of an estimated 250 million people; the destruction of the North African grain & live stock belt which had fed the West for a thousand years by salting the land and turning vast goat herds lose on the vegetation - creating the semi-desert of today.


72 posted on 11/12/2023 3:56:41 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Adder

The gave us the Hindu zero and Persian algebra.


73 posted on 11/12/2023 3:58:38 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: kiryandil

Indeed. And my guess is that his problems with the low level of math, science and technology is for the benefit of those immigrants who cannot cope with it.


74 posted on 11/12/2023 4:08:22 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: george76

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75 posted on 11/12/2023 4:18:19 AM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: george76

So she’s getting math and science in the US?


76 posted on 11/12/2023 4:58:35 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: george76

Democrats love progressive utopian policies until they have to live under it. Hypocrites, all of them. This guy should not have been allowed to come back. /spit


77 posted on 11/12/2023 5:24:11 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: cherry

“well soon, they will have all the women in burkas, stoning them to death if they talk to a male, so then you’ll be happy.... “

Actually, should that happen in USA, it, again, can be traced to the ‘women’s vote’, specifically the Kennedy’s, including the 1965 Immigration Act, which allowed for unlimited Third World immigration. Probably similar histories in European countries too.


78 posted on 11/12/2023 5:52:12 AM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone)
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To: PIF

Correct.


79 posted on 11/12/2023 6:10:44 AM PST by nwrep
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To: cgbg

In my working life I had a saying, “Inspect. Don’t expect.”


80 posted on 11/12/2023 6:17:14 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
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