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\nCelebration! Ingrid was accepted to the school she most wanted.<\/p>\n
\nCelebration! Ingrid was accepted to the school she most wanted.<\/p>\n
Solhemsskolan only has grades F to 6, so Ingrid will be attending a different school next year. There is a fair amount of choice, both run-of-the-mill schools run by the city, and “free” schools with various profiles.<\/p>\n
Several of the more promising-looking “free” schools accept children based on a queue and we would have needed to sign Ingrid up shortly after she was born to have any chance to get into those. We weren’t planning quite that far ahead…<\/p>\n
Luckily the school closest to us – even closer than the kids’ current school, which is just a five-minute walk away – is also one of the best city schools this side of town. And even better, that school has a special class with a math\/science focus. Ingrid is very much into those subjects, so she applied to this class, and was really hoping to get a place there.<\/p>\n
Normally kids get allocated a place at a city school based on distance only – not necessarily at the nearest school, but optimizing so that no child has to walk more than 2 (?) kilometers to school. But because this class has a specific profile\/focus, students wanting a place need to have good grades in the relevant subjects and also to attend a group interview where they discuss math and science-related topics. (At an info meeting at the school we heard that most years, students with As in both math and science would be guaranteed a place, but there were more applicants with double As this year, so even with her great grades Ingrid was not 100% sure to get in.)<\/p>\n
The interview was a good while ago and Ingrid has been anxious to find out the results. <\/p>\n
Yesterday Ingrid got the great news that she was accepted.<\/p>\n
Today we celebrated with Ingrid’s most favourite food ever – sushi, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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