“The authorities have invested in basic skills for 20 years, and the Storting has increased funding for this purpose. It is therefore deserving of criticism that Norwegian schools have not equipped more pupils with strong fundamental skills,” Auditor General Karl Eirik Schjøtt-Pedersen said when the report was presented at a press conference on Tuesday.

The report concludes that the proportion of pupils with weak basic skills has increased sharply since 2015. In the 2022 PISA assessment, between 12 and 14 percentage points more pupils had reading and numeracy skills at the lowest proficiency level compared with 2015.

This means that 31 per cent of Norwegian pupils in compulsory education have weak mathematical skills. For reading, the figure is 27 per cent.

According to the report, a majority of headteachers and school leaders also believe that writing skills have not improved over the past ten years and that differences between pupils have increased.

These are figures that tell us something entirely different from the claim that “some are struggling”, a marginal group that has always had difficulties. When the figures rise into the 30 per cent range, we are talking about a societal crisis. It means that a fundamental failure has been allowed to develop without those responsible addressing it.

But this is consistent with what we have heard from schools for a long time: negative messages are unwelcome. The messenger is punished. That produces the kind of loyalty that leads to collapse. School has become something to get through. Talking about goals is pointless.

There is one word Schjøtter’n, the media, Simen Velle and Yoel Ystebø avoid: immigration. Everyone knows the decline has something to do with immigration: too many people arriving too quickly with inadequate prerequisites.

What the entire political class has in common is that they dare not admit how bad things are. Water is seeping in, the boat is sinking, but they know they have lifeboats. The population, who must send their children to school, do not.

What about their consciences? The political class is sacrificing the children. Many politicians do not have children.

Ine Eriksen Søreide is divorced and childless. Her two deputy leaders are homosexual. Does that affect the party’s low support? Probably. People have given up on the Conservative Party. They expect nothing from Oslo Høyre.

Ability grouping

The Progress Party has the answer: ability grouping, streaming – or sorting, as the Socialist Left Party (SV) calls it. That would make differences in achievement more visible, because there would actually be a group of winners. The socialists have created a school system in which winning is not merely difficult but unpopular, because it simultaneously casts the large mass in a poor light. There has been a downward slide. Lowering standards has also been the authorities’ response to the decline in standards. They knew they were merely postponing the day when the deterioration could no longer be hidden; when they would hit the wall.

Thanks to Schjøtter’n for finding the courage. This would have been impossible to ignore in an election year.

There is a direct correlation between explosive immigration and the decline in schools. But the socialists have used demographic change as a pretext for introducing woke ideology: throwing out Christianity, introducing “feelings rooms” in nursery schools, convincing children that there are seven genders, and promoting a hatred of Trump among children that resembles a mixture of Nazi Germany and the GDR.

Four out of ten Norwegians push the news away. They do not want to know.

A grandfather from Sunnmøre tells us what his grandchildren are being served: faeces.

The yellow hairstyle naturally belongs to Trump, who is the number one object of hatred for the Norwegian elite. Dennis Prager says that the left has a fascination with the faecal, a term associated with excrement. They are drawn towards the lower bodily functions. Excrement and profanity. Yet through NRK and the other media, the Norwegian Labour-state has created the impression that there is something elevated about wallowing in the sewer. They have turned all values upside down.

Pride has been made a symbol of this. Yet companies, mayors and headteachers force this dissolution of norms upon children and young people every single day. And nobody says anything. They do not dare. The Pride parade has been imposed from above. It is an effective steamroller that crushes everything that remains of decency and morality.

At the same time, it contributes to alienating the Muslim part of the population; they do not wish to send their children to the homosexual school. There will undoubtedly be a reaction that will make society even more fragmented.

We are not together in anything, yet SV and Labour continue to talk about community! On their terms.

Schjøtter’n does not understand this decline in values, but he describes it:

The Office of the Auditor General’s investigations cover the period from the introduction of the Knowledge Promotion Reform (Kunnskapsløftet) in 2006 until 2025.

The Office of the Auditor General also points to weaknesses in the Ministry of Education’s governance. Among other things, it highlights that it is unclear what effect government measures have had over the years, and that the teacher-density norm has not changed pupils’ wellbeing and learning.

“This increases the risk that municipalities and schools lack state frameworks for education that contribute to strengthening pupils’ basic skills,” says Schjøtt-Pedersen.

What the Office of the Auditor General is saying is that the public school system is lost. We must invest in private schools and home schooling. That renewal must come from there.

The left has no answers, only escapism:

Hege Bae Nyholt, a Red Party (Rødt) politician and member of the Parliamentary Committee on Education, believes that new thinking is required.

“Symbolic policies such as longer school days and more testing are no longer enough. We must instead organise a school day with fewer hours and more play that enables children to learn.”

Sunniva Holmaas Eidsvold said the same thing on Politisk kvarter: instead of sorting pupils, we need more community that brings everyone along.

This, combined with “eat the rich”, is supposed to do the trick. The Norwegian left is now copying the Democrats’ policies in the United States.

In other words, more of the same that created the crisis.

Tens of thousands of parents must be aware of the crisis in schools, both academically and in terms of discipline. There must be enormous potential for the party that decisively dares to tackle it.

Simen Velle had evidently learned a lesson about making every pupil the best version of themselves.

Immigration lay between the lines.

But there are two words FrP avoids: coercion and discipline.

The greater the disintegration, the stronger the recoil.

Who will be responsible for that?

It applies in every area. Behavioural scientist Gad Saad had a comment on the small child who was killed by two homosexuals in the United Kingdom:

The death penalty.

That is where we are.

Norwegian society is unprepared and incapable of handling the conditions spreading across Western Europe.

Kari Nessa Nordtun was right: it is not only Norway. But she does not dare say what she sees.