SVT News has previously reported on the Swedish Schools Inspectorate's sharp criticism of many of Thorengruppen's upper secondary schools.
Eddie Modén, who attends one of the criticized schools, Thoren Business School in Växjö, is grateful for the Swedish Schools Inspectorate's supervision.
"The school has needed some criticism and to know what they need to correct. Now I think they will fix schedules, halls and hire more people who can help students who need it.
Internships are not checked
The Swedish Schools Inspectorate's criticism is mainly that the students have received too little teaching time, partly because students on the theoretical programmes have been sent out on internships without the school having control over what they are going to learn.
"I can understand where it comes from. It was a bit like when you had an internship in ninth grade – go to any place you feel like. Some went to brokers, lawyers but some to a regular grocery store, so it has been very mixed, says Eddie, who himself reads the community program.
Had chosen another school today
Eddie says that he would not have chosen Thoren Business School today and that it does not meet the expectations he had.
"You had been to the open house and then it was painted as very nice and that you could be anything after school. Then you have noticed in class that not everyone may perform at the highest level.
Eddie thus partly agrees with the school's principal Nils Pihlsgård, who in an interview with SVT said that some of the students' low results are that it has been easy to get in and that many students are therefore low motivated.
Students in need of support are missed
But both Eddie and the Swedish Schools Inspectorate also see shortcomings in the school's routines to help the students who are in need of support.
"Many people need more help. When the school can't contribute with that, they become low motivated and don't want to come to school because they feel that I'm doing no good there," says Eddie Modén.