THE SWEDISH SCHOOL SYSTEM
The Swedish students get a free bus ticket they can use when going to
school, they also get free lunch at school and like that wasn´t enough
they get 1050 SEK each month. They actually have it really good but still
there are some complaints. The Swedish school system is a little different
from the school system in other countries. We in Sweden actually have it
really good when it comes to the things we get and the opportunities we
have. Homework and assignments on the other hand, we can discuss.
Free bus tickets
The Swedish students from class 7 up to upper secondary school receive
a bus ticket if they have more than 3 kilometers to school. They can use
the bus ticket in their county during the school year with a break at the
same time as the school holidays take place.
“The bus ticket is a heaven, it’s awesome to get a free bus ticket that you
can use in the whole county, if I would like to travel to another city, I can
do that for free with my bus ticket. I live in Skåne and in my county we
can use the bus tickets between 6am to 8pm” says Johanna.– Johanna
Krondahl
SAVE THE
ENVIRONMENT
If you are out walking and you
see garbage pick it up! And
throw it in a dustbin. If you do
that you have rescued a little bit
of the environment. If we don’t
take care of our environment
we would eventually not
survive. Most people will live a
long life but how would we live
a long life if we don’t take care
of our world.
So think one step more before
you destroy the environment.
Think also about the animals, if
we humans destroy the
environment we also destroy for
the animals. So if you destroy
just a little you destroy for
everybody even for yourself. –
Sanna Borgqvist
SUPERSONIC AIRPLANES
Wouldn’t it be fun to be able to go to Australia on a weekend, to
Paris on a lunch or to New York for the day?
Soon, it may be possible - several companies have plans for making
a supersonic-plane that will cut the travel-times significantly. Spike
Aerospace is now developing an airplane, “the successor to
Concorde”, called Spike S-512.The plane can seat 12-18 passengers
and is able to reach supersonic - Mach 1.6 (about 1800 km / h). This
will half the travel time compared to a normal airplane.Let’s say,
this plane would fly from Stockholm – New York, it would only take
4 hours instead of 8.The company hopes to develop the plane as
fast as possible, and it is supposed to be released inyear
2018.Another company is also working on an airplane like this but
an even faster one, called Sonic Star, that will be able to fly over the
Atlantic in only an hour.According to the plans this plane will be in
traffic in 2021. –Carolina Tufvesson
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FACT FILE~
Sweden has one of the highest literacy
rates in the world. As of 2003, its literacy
rate was 99%.