In particular, when it comes to criticism of the government’s desire for a distribution of students in high schools based on parents’ income, the Liberal Party’s words sound hollow, it sounds from the Social Democrat.
According to him, the Liberal Party criticizes the government’s proposal for a new high school distribution, even though the party itself helped to set up the expert group from which the Social Democrats’ proposal, according to Rabjerg, originates.
– Before the election, the Liberal Party agreed with the Social Democrats that they could not live with the fact that there were high schools where more than 50 percent are of an ethnic origin other than Danish, he says.
– It is as if strategic messages are more important for the Liberal Party than actually taking responsibility for us getting a high school where there is a proper connection.
– You are more concerned with talking about slogans than about taking responsibility.
In February 2019, the then government – led by the Liberal Party – set up an expert group to provide suggestions on how students can be better distributed. To counteract a concentration of students with other ethnic origins than Danish.
At the Liberal Party’s national meeting this weekend, Jakob Ellemann-Jensen criticized the government for pursuing a policy that reduces the freedom of Danes.
Former Liberal Party chairman Anders Fogh Rasmussen has mentioned the high school distribution as a deprivation of liberty on the rostrum.
Question: Is Fogh not right that, by definition, it reduces the individual’s free choice if one’s parents’ income is to determine where one is allowed to go to school?
– I certainly do not mean that. This is about taking responsibility for a good high school.
– When the Liberal Party talks about the problem, they present it as if there is a free choice today, he says.
He refers to the existing distance rules, which means that those who live closest to a high school are disadvantaged over those who live far away.