- It is a reaction to the cuts being made around the country. The school march is a national event, says Marcus Nilsson, who is a high school teacher at Elin Wägnerskola and one of the initiators of organizing the march in Växjö.

The school march was started by a teacher in Stockholm and this weekend educators, principals, leisure staff and parents will gather at twelve different places because they have had enough of school cuts.

Savings in school in many municipalities

Swedish Radio reported this week that half of the country's municipalities have made savings in compulsory school this year. The tough economic times for the municipalities are also expected to get worse.

SVT Nyheter Småland reported, for example, that the upper secondary school in Uppvidinge may be closed down and during Friday we told that the cultural school in Uppvidinge is also threatened.

Reduce requirements or increase resources

Marcus Nilsson believes that the state is increasing the demands on the school and they want the school to do even more things.

- It's more teaching time. There are fewer resources that can take care of students' special needs. We must increasingly cover each other when we are sick. They say that there are efficiency improvements in school but it is a finer word for savings, he says.

Marcus Nilsson, high school teacher in Växjö, Photo: SVT / Clary Kroon

What do you want to accomplish with this march?

- We do what we can. We are not naive, but you have to make your voice heard in a democracy. We hope to be able to raise public opinion, because we feel that we need to lower requirements or increase resources.

In the clip you can see when they protested and hear more voices participating.