When Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson (S), together with Minister of Education Lina Axelsson Kihlblom (S), held a press conference on lowering school fees for independent schools last week, she attacked the independent school companies and their profits.
She talked about, among other things, that school fees for school children in Sweden go to luxury homes in Florida and sex purchases in Thailand.
But now Academedia's communications manager is launching a counterattack.
- I do not think it is right for a prime minister and a school minister to stand and hold election meetings at a press conference, says Academedia's communications director Paula Hammerskog.
"Concerned about such an attitude"
In a blog post on Academedia's website, Paula Hammerskog describes last week's press conference on reduced tuition fees for independent schools as "political saucepan".
A wording that irritates Magdalena Andersson.
- I am very worried about such an attitude.
But I can also understand that they do not want us to discuss the problems we have in Swedish schools, with a system that drives segregation and chaos, and which the independent school groups want to preserve, says Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson to SVT News.
But Paula Hammerskog rejects the criticism.
- There are 80,000 employees they go to, they go to 225,000 students who have chosen these schools.
In addition, they say that independent schools should remain, but still point them out as problems, she says.