the copenhagen post | april 19-25
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19 - 25 April 2013 | Vol 16 Issue 16 Denmark’s only English-language newspaper | cphpost.dk
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P ARENTS across the country are looking into the possibility of dragging their local councils into court over the ongoing
teacher lockout.“We have started to receive in-
quiries from parents asking if there is anything they can do via the courts,” Mette With Hagensen, the head of parents’ group Skole og Forældre, told Newspaq. “� ey want to know if they can sue their local councils or the state for not ful� lling their compulsory edu-
cation and supervisory duties.”According to Hagensen, parents are
reporting that their children are begin-ning to miss going to school and the comfort of their daily routines.
� e teachers’ unions are also hear-ing from exasperated parents.
“� e messages are beginning to make their way to me, and I am taking them seriously,” Anders Bondo Chris-tensen, the head negotiator for the teachers’ union Danmarks Lærerforen-ing (DLF), told Newspaq.
A representative from the local gov-ernment association KL, which along with the national government is pre-venting teachers from going to work, said that any parents looking to sue are on a fool’s errand.
“� e councils will provide children with the education that they need, if
Parents look to sue councils over teacher lockoutunion representing headteachers, told Politiken newspaper.
Teachers in other councils are re-porting the same problem.
According to KL, the Education Ministry will ultimately decide what councils should do if they cannot meet the minimum requirements. � e min-istry said it is the councils’ responsibil-ity to make sure that the number of required hours is met.
Møller said that KL hopes that the ninth graders’ missing hours could be made up by students taking extra after-noon classes once the teachers were al-lowed to work, but that suggestion was not well received by DLF.
“It’s a bit arrogant to suggest that teachers should just take on extra hours,” Dorte Lange, DLF’s vice presi-dent, told Politiken.
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As the dispute heads into its fourth week, parents and kids are running out of patience. Meanwhile, some students may not have enough hours to graduate
not right now, then at a later date, so it is hard to see where the parents have a case,” said KL o� cial Lene Møller.
Schools can add the hours lost to students in grades 0 to 8 into next year’s curriculum, but students currently set to graduate from the ninth grade may well wind up short of the legally-mandated number of school hours.
When the lockout was � rst enact-ed, many analysts expected it to run for just two weeks, and teachers said that they would be able to � t the hours in. But that now appears less likely as the lockout wraps up its third week with no end in sight.
“I would think that more or less all ninth grade classes are now below the minimum number of hours,” Jeanne Jacobsen, the head of the Copenha-gen branch of Skolelederforeningen, a
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nordic food & cocktails in the meatpacking district
...
coctails & clubhappy hour & dj’s 10 pm fridays & saturdays
...
www.karrierebar.com
19 - 25 April 2013 | Vol 16 Issue 16 Denmark’s only English-language newspaper | cphpost.dk
PE
TE
R ST
AN
NE
RS
P ARENTS across the country are looking into the possibility of dragging their local councils into court over the ongoing
teacher lockout.“We have started to receive in-
quiries from parents asking if there is anything they can do via the courts,” Mette With Hagensen, the head of parents’ group Skole og Forældre, told Newspaq. “� ey want to know if they can sue their local councils or the state for not ful� lling their compulsory edu-
cation and supervisory duties.”According to Hagensen, parents are
reporting that their children are begin-ning to miss going to school and the comfort of their daily routines.
� e teachers’ unions are also hear-ing from exasperated parents.
“� e messages are beginning to make their way to me, and I am taking them seriously,” Anders Bondo Chris-tensen, the head negotiator for the teachers’ union Danmarks Lærerforen-ing (DLF), told Newspaq.
A representative from the local gov-ernment association KL, which along with the national government is pre-venting teachers from going to work, said that any parents looking to sue are on a fool’s errand.
“� e councils will provide children with the education that they need, if
Parents look to sue councils over teacher lockoutunion representing headteachers, told Politiken newspaper.
Teachers in other councils are re-porting the same problem.
According to KL, the Education Ministry will ultimately decide what councils should do if they cannot meet the minimum requirements. � e min-istry said it is the councils’ responsibil-ity to make sure that the number of required hours is met.
Møller said that KL hopes that the ninth graders’ missing hours could be made up by students taking extra after-noon classes once the teachers were al-lowed to work, but that suggestion was not well received by DLF.
“It’s a bit arrogant to suggest that teachers should just take on extra hours,” Dorte Lange, DLF’s vice presi-dent, told Politiken.
The Copenhagen Post’s Children’s Fair is back!
Tide turning against freedom of info proposal
133
Grab your sledge and head to Greenland
As the dispute heads into its fourth week, parents and kids are running out of patience. Meanwhile, some students may not have enough hours to graduate
not right now, then at a later date, so it is hard to see where the parents have a case,” said KL o� cial Lene Møller.
Schools can add the hours lost to students in grades 0 to 8 into next year’s curriculum, but students currently set to graduate from the ninth grade may well wind up short of the legally-mandated number of school hours.
When the lockout was � rst enact-ed, many analysts expected it to run for just two weeks, and teachers said that they would be able to � t the hours in. But that now appears less likely as the lockout wraps up its third week with no end in sight.
“I would think that more or less all ninth grade classes are now below the minimum number of hours,” Jeanne Jacobsen, the head of the Copenha-gen branch of Skolelederforeningen, a
MBA information meeting at CBS on 24 April 17:00-19:00.
Visit www.cbs.dk/mba to sign up.
THE COPENHAGEN MBAINTERNATIONAL NETWORK. TRIPLE-ACCREDITED PROGRAMME.
COPE2067 Full Time MBA_131x50_B.indd 1 11/03/2013 16:38
NEWS
According to a woman’s magazine, the vagina needs a new name that won’t make us giggle or gag
10
NEWS
Nationalists hope that Holger Danske will arise from his slumber and prohibit his sale to foreigners
3, 18
From Boston to Bethlehem
10
Following the Boston tragedy, a pair of Danes prepare to host the fi rst ever marathon in Palestine
The death of the Dankort?
15
Telecommunications companies team up to bring new paying options to smartphones
9 771398 100009
Price: 25 DKK
NEWS
BUSINESS
What do a 30-year-old Russian and a 59-year-old Dane have in common? KVINFO’s mentoring programme
Unlikely duo
4
RAY WEAVER
Grab your sledge and
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