Dagbladet wrote yesterday about a set of house rules by Haugerud school in Oslo, which emerges as an outright silencing of employees’ right to speak negatively about the school administration or school policy.
The rules are illegal, stated jurists Anine Kierulf and Jon Wessel-Aas. Kierulf described house rules as “totally ridiculous” and “authoritarian balderdash.”
Will not intervene
School Commissioner in Oslo, Annie Hauglie- (H), were yesterday accidentally traveling to Kristiansand together with Trond Nilsen, head teacher who initially authored the controversial document. Nilsen resigned as rector of Haugerud in 2014, and is now rector of the new Grantangen school that opens this fall.
Both Nilsen and Hauglie- were joined frankincense around Haugerud rules yesterday.
– Firstly, this is not the rules, there are no instructions, but internal house rules, as I understand that teachers at Haugerud has worked together with the management, and that they live well, says Annie Hauglie- Dagbladet.
She concedes that the rules “may look a little strange out.”
– But some of it must be understood in the context of school was in, say Hauglie-.
She will not intervene against Haugerud school to get them to amend the document.
– I am confident that the school can do this without my help, but I assume that employees do not feel that restrictions are imposed on their rights, says Hauglie-.
She points out that it is important to commend Haugerud school that they have reversed a negative trend of apostasy and declining number of pupils, to become an attractive school in Groruddalen.
– There was a school in freefall, says Hauglie-.
Oslo problem
But the feeling of being gagged is not limited to Haugerud school. There is a problem in oslo school in general.
Teachers and principals in schools in Oslo are more afraid of public speaking than school employees in the rest of the country.
It went in a survey Norwegian lektorlag did in 2011.
1000 lecturers in five counties were in March 2011 asked its experienced freedom of expression and influence in the job.
• 66 percent of lecturers in Oslo meant they could not speak freely to journalists about how they evaluate conditions at his school. (Average for the other counties: 47 percent.)
• 40 percent of principals in Oslo said they agreed with the statement “I am afraid to criticize conditions at the school in public for fear of negative reactions.” (Average for the other counties: 26 percent.)
– I do not know of this investigation, but I am concerned that everyone has freedom of expression, says Hauglie-.
– Education Union says that they have not had a single case in recent years dealing with teachers who do not get outside themselves, says Hauglie-.
Opp City Council
City Council Representative Ivar Johansen (SV) has requested that Annie Hauglie- meetings in the afternoon session of the city council finance committee at. 16.30 to answer questions about Haugerud case. The meeting is open to the public.
Among those who are critical of Haugerud regime, the leader of Red’s City Council group in Oslo, Lynne Moxnes.
– It is we as parents and our kids who more than any others need teachers’ freedom of expression. Teachers must safeguard the best interests and put your foot down if such income chased the prestige run politicians start going out of your kids. They must tell us parents if there is something reprehensible, but here we see a principal who put a muzzle on the teachers, says Moxnes.
– I get a lump in my stomach, considering that no one can say from whose rulers prestisjejag affecting children. It’s only teachers who can be there for their parents’ place, but in Oslo get the muzzle, says Moxnes.
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