Several hours' journey to school when Asped's school closes

- This is pure madness, says Ann-Christine Pollack who has a daughter who went to Asped's school and who now has to go to Torsby.

Several children will have several hours to travel to and from school.

Nine-year-old Alma Larsson, for example, will have to travel four and a half miles in each direction to go to school in Torsby.

- I do not know how we will get it together, says her mother Ann-Charlotte Larsson.

- She has to leave home very early, at six in the morning and then she does not come home until five in the afternoon. It is not reasonable with such long days when they go to primary school.

When SVT visits Vitsand, about 50 people have gathered to show their support for Asped's school, which the politicians in the City Council in early July decided to close already now for the autumn term. Until the summer holidays, about 20 children went to school, which also served as a preschool.

Several parents have now appealed the municipality's decision to the administrative court.

- We see that the municipality has not complied with the Convention on the Rights of the Child, we see a conflict of interest in the municipal government and we see that the municipality runs with very misleading information, says Ann-Christine Pollack.

According to her, the conflict situation would be that the municipal director Thomas Stjerndorff has several assignments that should not be possible to combine: he is not only the municipal director but also the school director and also the operations manager for Torsby ski tunnel while he is CEO of Torsby airport.

- The priorities where you put the resources are affected by one and the same person, she says.

Peter Jonsson (S), chairman of the children and education committee and incoming municipal councilor says that they followed all the rules. He says he can not see that Stjerndorff's many chairs could be considered unequal.

- An official does not make any decisions but adds information ....

He says that there will be long journeys to school for many children, but that it is inevitable in such a large municipality.

- We already have similar ones today. It is the size of the municipality and the geography we have and we can not do much about it. But it is of course good if this is tried, he says.

Residents in the area believe that the school closure will affect the area negatively.

- It's going to be death. The nail in the coffin, says Annika Kollfelt, who has children in preschool.

Peter Jonsson says that it is about money and with the savings requirement of eight million, the decision was inevitable.

- It is clear that it is sad when a school disappears, but it is still a decision made by an almost unanimous council.