According to the responsible school principals at Eskilstuna municipality, there are plenty of places for students from Ukraine.
In the first location, there is room for 150 preschool children, the primary school is ready to receive up to 600 students and the municipal upper secondary schools can currently accommodate 70 students.
Ukrainian students are going to schools
During the last refugee crisis in 2015, all children and young people who came to Eskilstuna were placed in so-called introductory classes.
- There were many unaccompanied minors who came and the assessment was made that they needed a lot of support and that you could satisfy that by having them together, says elementary school principal Lisa Edholm.
The result should have been a sense of security for the students with a lot of language guidance in the mother tongue.
At the same time, it was seen that the Swedish language developed slowly.
So when schoolchildren from Ukraine now come to Eskilstuna, they are placed, after a survey on the Welcome, directly outside the schools.
Deviates from the proximity principle
In 2015, after the students learned Swedish in the introductory class, they were offered a school place at the nearest school.
The primary school board in Eskilstuna has now decided to abolish the so-called proximity principle in order to give students better conditions to, among other things, learn Swedish.
- Now we have the opportunity to place students in schools that can receive.
Of course in consultation with guardians and students, says Lisa Edholm.