Swedish Primary Education Up Close: How Children Develop Respect and Independence
Having settled in Sweden, I started working as a "study counselor" (Studiehandledare) two months ago. My job is to help newly arrived immigrant students who don't yet speak Swedish keep up with their studies and adapt to school life. After three days of shadowing, I began sitting in classrooms with fourth-grade primary school students every day, observing Swedish primary education firsthand.
"There's no bad weather, only bad gear"
November is the month everyone calls the hardest to get through. The weather is neither fully autumn nor fully winter, overcast and rainy. My city saw only three hours of sunlight the entire month, and the whole city felt shrouded in a depressive low pressure, lifeless, with the flu seizing the opportunity to break out on a large scale.
At eight in the morning, I rode my bike to school through the gloomy mist. From far away I could hear children's laughter and play. The children on the soccer field, on the small hill, and on the playground seemed to have no dark clouds over their heads, and unusually for a gloomy November day, they were shining bright. There were still nearly twenty minutes until class time. Although all the school buildings were brightly lit, the doors would not open for the children until ten minutes before class!
No matter how bad the weather is, the doors simply won't open before the time comes, and the children just keep playing as usual, learning the concept of "there's no bad weather, only bad gear" from a young age.
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