Battleangel

This week’s award for most deceitful act goes to a Swedish school. Talk about attacking the symptom, if it is even that. Personally I suspect that there is something darker afoot. The concept is of course courtesy of the so called Liberal Party. No surprise there. The same party that at one point or another favoured grading students’ behavior, mandatory language tests for immigrants, the prosecution of children and genital examinations. God forbid they should actually fess up to underlying problems like the lack of funding or the human psyche. But I guess the “Liberals” fancy themselves having made obsolete both the fields of economy and psychology using the magical wand of kneejerkedness.

The principal of Landskrona’s Gustav Adolf School is to introduce a new policy prohibiting the use of foreign languages on school premises. Almost half of the children at the school come from an immigrant background. The rules are to be tightened following the expulsion of 6 pupils and the suspension of 22 others from the school in the southern Swedish town.

I seriously doubt that politicians in the aforementioned party could pass a language test themselves. Or indeed any sort of test. After all, they don’t even seem to know the meaning of the word “liberal” and their ideological role model nowadays seems to be George Bush Jr rather than J S Mill. If only this was an isolated phenomenon. Hell in a handbasket … hell in a handbasket.