Praise's mother applied to the primary school administration in Malmö for the daughter to be allowed to go to school in Copenhagen instead of in Malmö when she turns six years old.
- She has been given an outstanding opportunity to attend the Royal Theatre's ballet school.
There is no equivalent in Malmö, says Karina Helmann Jensen, who lives in Hyllie with her daughter.
She commutes by train to Copenhagen and plans to take her daughter to the ballet school near her workplace.
Ystad became an alarm clock
There have been several notable cases where parents keep their children home from school for various reasons.
In Skåne, a few years ago, five children in a town outside Ystad were kept isolated by their parents.
When it was discovered, it became a scandal.
- We have become much better at carefully documenting and obtaining data.
What happened in Ystad certainly became an alarm clock for many, says Joel Valsten, unit manager at the school placement unit in Malmö.
Not special reasons
On Friday, the politicians in the elementary school committee's working committee will decide on the future of 5-year-old Praise.
The responsible official at the compulsory school administration does not think that there are special reasons for exempting her from compulsory schooling in Sweden.
"The compulsory school administration considers that the mere fact that a pupil is given the opportunity to pursue an interest, in the current case ballet, is not of such a nature that there are special reasons," the motivation states.
- I have a lot of documentation that shows that the school in Copenhagen provides a good teaching that is as good as the Swedish.
There are even more teaching hours in Denmark, says Karina Helmann Jensen.