Sending the kids to Africa because the Norwegian school is too bad

Hundreds Norwegian-Somali children are on long stays abroad in Somalia, Kenya and Egypt and Britain because their parents are dissatisfied with the Norwegian school.

Hundreds Norwegian-Somali children are on long stays abroad in Somalia, Kenya and Egypt and Britain because their parents are dissatisfied with the Norwegian school. 

The main reason that children are sent out are the dissatisfaction with the Norwegian school system and the concern that their children do not learn enough in Norway, writes the newspaper Aftenposten. 

- There is a recurring theme among those we talked to. The Parents very often find out that their children are perceived as weak learners, often because they speak Norwegian worse than their peers. It worries parents that children are not challenged enough in Norway, says Hilde Lidén at the Institute for Social Research. 

She is an author of the report "Transnational adolescence," which will be presented this week. Here, the researchers mapped the extent and causes of why immigrant children traveling on long stay abroad.

Source: NTB scanpix /Norway Today