A school in eastern Sweden, perhaps hoping to create the next Greta Thunberg, has come in for heavy criticism after saying that its students must take part in a climate change protest during school hours.
Västangård school in Umeå, Sweden, notified parents and guardians that participation in last Friday’s climate strike was mandatory.
According to local media, some school principals in Sweden have given approval for students to step out and attend the climate strike, once their permission was sought.
However, the school in Umeå said that its students must take part in the movement, regardless of if they’d asked to or not.
The decision has been criticized by Swedes as undemocratic and authoritarian for forcing children to take part in a movement even if they don’t wish to.
Local councilor Anders Ågren said that parents were told that the school had made the decision at the request of Thunberg.
The teenager, who has herself been ‘on strike’ from school every Friday for a year, called on young people around the world to skip school for global protests to urge leaders to take action on climate change.
RT. com / ABC Flash Point Education News 2019.
