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School for everyone?
People from the lower classes in our community celebrated in the streets for several hours when this revolutionary news came yesterday. Even though some of the poor children already go to Sunday schools, this will be a great improvement for thousands of children. The poor people in our community now believes that their schools are going to improve significantly, while the upper class see this as a huge catastrophe. If the poor children will get the same rights and opportunities as the rich ones, they are afraid that the standard for the rich children will sink to a lower level.

The headmaster on one of the top schools in our country is really stunned by all the upset parents that have contacted him. In an interview with us he says that he clearly believes that this is a good initiative from the government. Even though he understands why the parents from the upper class are concerned, he claims that they have no reason to be. Schools all over the country will do their best to make sure that every student reach their goals. The teachers have been instructed to keep up the strict way of teaching, and punishment of all sorts will be used. The lessons will last from 9am to 5pm, with a two-hour lunch break. Some may say the school days are too long, but he says that they felt it necessary to keep up a good standard. Further on the headmaster explains how much this new law can mean to establish better dividing of the possibilities between the rich and the poor. Now children from both poor and rich families have a chance to become something meaningful in their future

Only time will show if this was a good or a bad judgement from the government. Even though some speakers from the rich part of the community claims that they are going to protest against this new law, most people don’t believe that is going to work. The law is set, and people will just have to deal with it. Hopefully it will turn out to the best for everyone, and that the government will succeed reaching the goals they are trying to achieve.

//Lene Bog, November 2008//

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