If anyone finds a reason to complain after thatThere will be a shit load of people complaining no matter what happens . <| sep |> So you believe that Swedish society doesn ' t stress education , but that the Finish does ? Sweden used to have a system similar to the Finnish . Sweden used to have one of the best schools in the world . But in the late 90 ' s responsibility for the schools was taken from the the state and given to municipalities , schools where privatized and deregulated , and since then Sweden has fallen like rock in international c o m p a r i s o n s s c h o o l s c r i s i s politicalfailureeducation . The issue with the system of private schools is that it increases segregation . If you have schools where only the children of the working class and poor attend , then the average academic results will falter . If you have diverse class rooms with children of academics playing with the children of a mine worker , the average results go up . That kid from a household with an academic background won ' t get dragged down because of this , but he will drag up the results of the kids without one . There is overwhelming evidence of this , and not only from Sweden