It is fermenting in Linderås outside Tranås and the turmoil is great for the town's school. This spring, the Children and Education Board was commissioned to investigate the closure of the Linderå school and the students will then be moved to the school in Gripenberg, about four kilometers away. So far, however, no decision has been reached.

- We have the influence of families with children all the time, it goes against that you should close a school. If you do this, people will move away and the municipality will lose it. You have to think long term and not just the next few years, ”says Karin Thorsson Linell.

The parents of children who go to school feel worried and have written to the Children and Education Board and to the City Council, but feel that they are in the hidden.

- We have written to the Children and Education Board and also to the municipal council in Tranås, but we receive almost no response. Only two or three parties tried to respond. We get no insight into the investigation and feel in the hidden, says Karin Thorsson Linell.

Do not think politicians are properly informed

She says that when they come to visit, they have been surprised.

- The party representatives who have visited have said that they are surprised. They have been informed that the school is in great need of renovation and that there is insufficient disability accommodation. Which then they have seen that it is not true. There is a need for maintenance, as it does in all schools, but nothing that panics, says Karin Thorsson Linell.

Own children at school

Karin Thorsson Linell's children attend school and so it has looked like five generations in her family.

- I have two girls in school, I feel frustrated, my children are the fifth generation to attend this school and I know for myself that it is a good school where you get to learn what you need into the future of life, says Karin Thorsson Linell.

The demonstration will take place on Monday at 16.30 outside the town hall in Tranås.

Listen to what it sounded like when we visited the school earlier this year at SVT Jönköping:

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Parents and residents in Linderås want to keep their school. Photo: Kristin Renulf / SVT