On Wednesday, school starts in Gothenburg. The primary and lower secondary school administration has changed schools for a third of all 970 who appealed since the messages were sent out before the summer. In addition, about 150 more children have been offered to change schools, without them appealing. The reason is that the administration has judged that the distance to the school was too long.

Last year, only a third as many appeals were received. Then significantly more students got their first choice: 88 percent, compared with this year's 78 percent.

One of those who received a changed message about school choice is Victor Lövkvist, severely visually impaired and with Asperger's syndrome, who was first told that he would go to a school almost a mile from home. See him tell in the clip above.

Several serious errors

An internal report presented at the beginning of August points to a number of serious errors in this year's school elections in Gothenburg. For example, the regulations that the compulsory school board has decided on have not been applied in all placements, the report states. Almost four percent of the students who participated in this year's school choice are affected by the formal errors.

"Just to apologize"

A new IT support as well as shortcomings in management and control of the administration are pointed out as important reasons why the mistakes were made. Officials, for example, have walked the bird's path instead of the pedestrian and bicycle path when measuring the distance from home to school.

- It's just to apologize. This year's election has not been carried out in a completely good way. That is why the compulsory school administration takes a holistic approach to the process before the next school election, writes Nils Kaiser, acting head of department at the compulsory school administration, in an email.

But Victor's mother does not think this is good enough.

- This can lead to problems for very many children who do not get it right. They talk about the future, what to do next time. But the children here and now, what happens to them? says Carina Norling.