The Rise and Fall of the Finnish Education System (History and Today)

Welfare for families with children 1948
http://www.kysy.fi/kysymys/astuiko-la...

Free school lunches 1948
https://valtioneuvosto.fi/-/1271139/k...

Education policy in Finland
https://www.centreforpublicimpact.org...

Unified basic education law 1968 passed by the Paasio government (Communists, People's Democrats, Agrarians, SocDems, SocDem Union of Workers and Small Peasants) and implemented in the 70s.
https://www.eduskunta.fi/FI/nainedusk...

Paasio government
https://valtioneuvosto.fi/tietoa/hist...

Universal public healthcare law 1972. It has been announced that due to privatizations and the SOTE reform this law will be abolished in January 1st, 2023.
https://www.finlex.fi/fi/laki/ajantas...

"Finland has a DDR-type school system"
https://puheenvuoro.uusisuomi.fi/kaun...

"Against primary school", by V. Okkonen, published by the university of Turku. A dissertation about the right-wing's opposition to public schools.
https://www.utupub.fi/handle/10024/14...
https://web.archive.org/web/201808090...

Structure of DDR school
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...

Pirkkala educational pilot program. The sources give completely warped anti-communist analysis, but the program was one example of the how Finnish educators looked to socialist countries (Eastern Europe, USSR and China) for models. The anti-communist lies against this program are entirely the work of one capitalist historian J. Leskinen.
https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-8852894

Most Finnish schools are old (built in the 50s). Since the 90s the repairs and maintenance have been totally neglected "to save money" which had led to the schools becoming rundown, dilapidated and infested with poisonous fungi & mold. The true number is unknown but as many as 20% of Finnish schools might have dangerous mold infestations which results in renovation that costs millions, or the school being demolished. So much for "saving money".
https://www.maaseuduntulevaisuus.fi/r...

Due to cuts to spending, it is now common for the school to only spend 70-80 cents on lunches to students! Such food cannot be adequate.
https://www.is.fi/taloussanomat/oma-r...

In one school they only spend on average 64 cents for lunches
https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11148378

Proposal to abolish free lunches, reply: "for many children it is their only warm meal of the day"
https://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000005...

In the USA it costs 1.2-1.5 dollars (little over 1 euro) to provide a prisoner with a meal
https://eu.argusleader.com/story/news...

"Harsh numbers reveal that something is wrong - what has happened to Finnish schools?"
https://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000008...

Some discussion of incompetent or unqualified teachers. The problem in real life is worse then in statistics. We all know its common to hire teachers without degrees and label them "substitutes" even if they remain for a year or many years.
https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-7071281
https://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/art-2000003...

UP TO HALF OF REMAINING PRIMARY SCHOOLS WILL BE CLOSED IN THE NEXT 20 YEARS. I wish I knew how many were closed before this but the number must be high.
https://www.kansanuutiset.fi/artikkel...

Due to lack of class rooms many classes have been combined into "giant classes" of as many as 100 students IN ONE ROOM. Such class rooms also have 2 or 3 teachers, but sometimes due to lack of teachers many classes of 20 students have been combined to classes of 40 or 60 with only 1 or 2 teachers. This is the real cause of the education crisis!
https://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/art-2000002...
https://yle.fi/aihe/artikkeli/2019/11...
https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11937769

Half a million Finns have insufficient reading and writing skills now
https://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/art-20000...

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