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Screens must go and teachers’ authority must be restored. That was the message as five ministers presented the government’s school plans on Thursday — but much of it was familiar.

»I almost wish it were that simple — that you could just get a different prime minister and the problems would be solved«

Mette Frederiksen said at Thursday’s press conference on a new PISA study that she, too, has found it harder to read longer texts without losing concentration. Foto: Sebastian Elias Uth/Ritzau Scanpix
Mette Frederiksen said at Thursday’s press conference on a new PISA study that she, too, has found it harder to read longer texts without losing concentration. Foto: Sebastian Elias Uth/Ritzau Scanpix

At the high-profile press conference at the Prime Minister’s Office, where the entire government leadership had gathered to discuss the »deeply, deeply alarming« PISA study, a reporter from Børneavisen was sitting in the second row among the journalists.

She is in fifth grade and wanted to know how the government plans to ensure that she and her classmates will have learned what they are supposed to know by the time they finish ninth grade.

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