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Focusing on student well-being and class communities should bring Denmark’s alarmingly high public-school absenteeism down, says Copenhagen’s lord mayor, Sisse Marie Welling.

Lord Mayor: »The more we’ve emphasized academics in Denmark’s public schools, the worse results we’ve gotten«

It is the framework around schools, not the children in them, that has changed, says Lord Mayor Sisse Marie Welling of the Socialist People’s Party. Foto: Loui Pedersen
It is the framework around schools, not the children in them, that has changed, says Lord Mayor Sisse Marie Welling of the Socialist People’s Party. Foto: Loui Pedersen
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Imagine a Copenhagen public school classroom with 24 students.

Last school year, six of them had an absence rate of 10 percent or more. That amounts to missing instruction equivalent to at least one month of the school year.

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