US EditionMajority Wants to Scrap the Teacher Norm: – Will Get a Worse School
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The Municipal Commission wants to scrap the teacher norm and give municipalities greater freedom. Randaberg's head of early childhood education, Petter Hagen, believes the norm ensures equal opportunities – and warns against using it as a way to save money. At the same time, the proposal is facing strong opposition from teachers' organizations.
The number of teachers is not the most important thing in schools, say school principals. Removing the teacher quota will make students the big losers, say principals.
The teacher quota should be phased out, earmarked subsidies should be removed, and competency requirements in health and care services must be eliminated. This is the Municipal Commission's cure for the municipalities.
The teacher quota should be phased out, earmarked subsidies should be removed, and competency requirements in health and care services must be eliminated. This is the Municipal Commission's cure for the municipalities.
Abolishing the teacher quota does not solve the teacher shortage – it makes understaffing legal. The result is larger student groups, less follow-up and increased disparities between municipalities.
It may sound like a brutal attack on Norwegian welfare. Let me explain, writes the head of the Municipal Commission in a column.
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