Performance gap between immigrant pupils and native Swedes has grown: report

[Daneman]

The performance gap between pupils born in Sweden and those born abroad has increased sharply as a consequence of demographics shifts according to a new report into the factors behind immigrant pupils performing worse than native Swedes.
The report by the Swedish Ministry of Finance's Expert Group on Public Economics (ESO) studied data covering all pupils who completed primary school in Sweden during the period between 1988 and 2014. Results showed significant differences in performance between immigrant and native pupils: while just over 90 percent of all pupils born in Sweden qualify for upper secondary school, for foreign-born pupils the figure drops to 65 percent.

And the difference increased sharply in 2008, "explained by a shift in the demographic composition of foreign pupils in terms of region of birth and age at arrival".

Pupils who moved to Sweden after the typical school starting age of seven, as well as those from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds perform particularly poorly according to the study.

Those born in Africa and unaccompanied refugee children have a "significantly higher risk" of failing school. That can be linked to the average age at the time of immigration being higher for those groups compared to other immigrant pupils, meaning they have less time in their new country before they need to complete school.

With a record number of refugee children coming to Sweden in recent years, and an upper secondary school education key to entering the labour market in the country, the current situation could be problematic for integration efforts in the future, researchers warned.

"With many more foreign born students the pressure on society's capacity to integrate increases. Measures need to be broad, targeting students in school but also their parents in order to reduce exclusion," Hans Grönqvist, one of the researchers involved in the report said in a statement.

One of the key findings in the study is that socio-economic status of parents is strongly linked to the size of the performance gap, as is the importance of neighbourhood of residence.

Almost the entire gap disappears if foreign born and native pupils have the same socio-economic background and live in the same neighbourhoods, it observed:

"In particular the analysis shows that the gap decreases when we compare the achievements of immigrant and native students who attend the same schools".

"Broad societal efforts to improve the socio-economic status among immigrants could be a way to improve the school achievement of their children," the researchers concluded.

https://www.thelocal.se/20170529/per...growing-report

There is no way they can get this working in time on the current course! Drastic measures need to be taken or they will end up with a huge amount of people who will never have the education to get a job!

[Jinpachi]

And that is how Sweden becomes a third world country

[Deleted]

There is no way they can get this working in time on the current course! Drastic measures need to be taken or they will end up with a huge amount of people who will never have the education to get a job!

Maybe Sweden shall copy the Danish approach. Have Swedich polise escort the refuges to the border and let it be the Danes problem, and then post on internet how bad Danmark is who cant have a sensible refugee policy....

Daneman way are you so fixed on Sweden? Did a Swedich girl turn you down or what?

[Zoibert the Bear]

Maybe Sweden shall copy the Danish approach. Have Swedich polise escort the refuges to the border and let it be the Danes problem, and then post on internet how bad Danmark is who cant have a sensible refugee policy....

Daneman way are you so fixed on Sweden? Did a Swedich girl turn you down or what?

I think he actually likes Sweden and is sad that the country is destroying itself.

Like most of Europe.

[Daethz]

It's amusing how Europe is destroying itself, russia must be laughing its butt off right now.
The greatest weapon against the west, is itself.

[Gully Man]

Some figures that weren't in the article. The number of children who have arrived in Sweden after the age of 7 and successfully passed swedish, maths, and english has fallen from 70% in 1998 to 50% in 2014. Only 20-30% of unaccompanied refugee children managed to pass swedish, maths and english in recent years.

[Allybeboba]

The solution is quite simple. Lower the educational standards so even the immigrants can pass.

[Puremallace]

We seem to never have this issue in America. From what I have learned Euros think the refugees are there temporarily and after some magical peace is declared in Syria all of them will flood out of Europe. There are some issues here:

1. Syria is basically a fucking desert
2. It will either be run by psycho Bashar Al Assad or some Shia or Sunni psycho who will declare jihad on the opposite sect
3. Benefits? Schools? Security??

When refugees come to the US we sort of accept they are going to be here for the long haul so we incorporate them into American society and Americanize them basically. This is a nice way of saying a lot of racist xenophobes here basically guilt trip Muslims into acting like Americans or face a severe backlash for being labeled a terrorist. Atleast that is how it works in the South down here.

I would try to incorporate them into your society because I found out oddly enough given the amount of porn that comes out of Europe you guys like to fuck but never have kids so your birth rates are shit and you need a flood of cheap labor.

[Deleted]

The solution is quite simple. Lower the educational standards so even the immigrants can pass.

This actually happens in the Netherlands.

My father is a teacher and the courses (and education level) he teaches are for 90% foreign kids between 16-18.
They fail the tests over, and over, and over again. Even after making it so easy a 10 year old child should be able to pass, they still fail it.

So basically, they cannot progress to the next year, which is bad for the school, and someone from management comes by and tells him that he has to pass everyone anyway.

[Aggrophobic]

You seem so fascinated with everything that goes on in Sweden.
Whats up with that?

[Allybeboba]

This actually happens in the Netherlands.

My father is a teacher and the courses (and education level) he teaches are for 90% foreign kids between 16-18.
They fail the tests over, and over, and over again. Even after making it so easy a 10 year old child should be able to pass, they still fail it.

So basically, they cannot progress to the next year, which is bad for the school, and someone from management comes by and tells him that he has to pass everyone anyway.

Reminds me of a Metallica song.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V-AqY3veCNI

[Deleted]

That is what, 200,000 that can't pass onto upper secondary school. I wouldn't call that a good thing, but wouldn't exactly call it a nightmare scenario either.

Actually never mind, it is a far lower number.

[Polyxo]

This isn't surprising or a cause for alarm. Anytime there's an influx of immigrants by way of some catastrophe or war, performance should likely lower, unless you're receiving refugees from a country with higher education standards.

Under normal immigration circumstances, countries largely take in the wealthy and well educated elite from other countries. This generally skews performance data of immigrants upwards. When you're not taking in just the elite, the performance rates decline initially. They normalize over time, however, so it's not really something to worry about.

[Vash The Stampede]

The solution is quite simple. Lower the educational standards so even the immigrants can pass.

That's a great idea. I wish we American's have thought of it first. Oh wait...

[Allybeboba]

That's a great idea. I wish we American's have thought of it first. Oh wait...

Where do you think I got the idea from? And to think, his wife was a school teacher.

[Deleted]

Pretty sure this thread belongs in the politics section.

[Independent voter]

Performance gap between immigrant pupils and native Swedes has grown

We had the same problem between us and our Vietnamese refugees.

[McFuu]

This isn't surprising or a cause for alarm. Anytime there's an influx of immigrants by way of some catastrophe or war, performance should likely lower, unless you're receiving refugees from a country with higher education standards.

Under normal immigration circumstances, countries largely take in the wealthy and well educated elite from other countries. This generally skews performance data of immigrants upwards. When you're not taking in just the elite, the performance rates decline initially. They normalize over time, however, so it's not really something to worry about.

They normalize over time as in the current low becomes the new normal or they return to pre-immigration standards?

[S7orm]

The solution is quite simple. Lower the educational standards so even the immigrants can pass.

Agree. Worked just fine for us

[Masark]

someone from management

I think I see the problem.