The Swedish teachers ' union warns: Older instructors are kicked out next year

Years of hard lobbying from the teachers ' association, was crowned in the summer with the political decision to do fritidspedagog to a legitimationsyrke.

But now, when this is in place, risk upwards of a thousand of Swedish older, but still professionals, members to get their careers kick: all those who received their training before the 1977 reform. Their training will be stamped in the day of the Swedish national two-year upper secondary school.

Johanna Jaara Åstrand:

– the Early attitude of both the government's and the investigator's intentions, claiming the Swedish chairman of the board.

" What the agency is doing now is to reject and undermine the most experienced fritidspedagogerna. Certainly this group of members only a few years left to retirement, but we need to improve recreational quality, and it does so not by removing the most experienced teachers. There will be a loss also for fritidshemmen and students.

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Ann-Christin Rosenborg was only 17 years old when she in 1975, began his two-year training to fritidspedagog, and 19 when she 1977 completed it. The training is eligible for student loans from CSN, which high school at the time did not, " she points out.

Fritidspedagogen Ann-Christin Rosenborg. Photo: Anders Hansson

with over four decades of experience from several of the country's municipalities. Today she is working on Norrevångsskolan in Eslöv, sweden, where she is head of a fritidshemsavdelning with 42 children.

" I have a huge amount of experience and expertise. I am 60 years old and have several years of working life left. I take colleagues and leads värdegrundsarbete and quality assurance. But without id, I can no longer be responsible for any activity, or change to a service in another municipality.

instructors can she id not get any tillsvidaretjänst. At each of the appointments to positions will be a fritidspedagog with the right to go before.

– It is just so stupid, " sighs Ann-Christin Rosenborg, who recently unsuccessfully contested the Agency's decision.

" Neither I or my boss will understand. She called the agency and asked why the one who has the longest experience is no longer teach, but she got no good answer.

if it is intended that she shall leave the labour force for several years in advance.

" I want to be on. I is not more than 60 and want to continue to work and develop in several years. There are services that first fritidspedagog, that I would seek. But it is impossible now. I'm not going to stop if I'm going to run around, but to be allowed to take responsibility.

e-mail to the agency, type the agency's director general, Peter Fredriksson that he has no reason to question her competence and experience: "Then we must relate to the regulation, the policy given to us and which governs our work. Our assessment is that the regulation prevents the issue of identification for employees with your training. The regulation does not give us the space to make any other interpretation than that your application must be refused."

To the DN in front of the director-general that it is not about the department of Education would have a specific setting:

" But we must start from the laws and regulations as parliament and the government decide. We have taken up this matter with the department, " says Peter Fredriksson.

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