Mastodawn

Respectful Dissenter Jul 27, 2025

In Finland, charging fees for tuition is illegal, which means rich kids have to mix with normal kids, which means rich families had to make sure the schools the kid went to were good, which meant the rich were prompted to invest in public schools. Finland, take a bow.

#schools #finland #public #education #sticker

tschew Jul 27, 2025

@vlepy This is the way. The same should apply to health insurance and pensions. Many issues straining the "social contract" in most western societies would improve very quickly in my opinion, hopefully leading to more social cohesion and more stable coalition governments.

Becca Jul 27, 2025

@vlepy We need to do this in the US.

Andrew J Spaulding Jul 27, 2025

@vlepy. I applaud Finland 🇫🇮 👏.

François @Jura Jul 27, 2025

Sometime I wish I were a Finn 🙏

🇫🇮 🇫🇮 🇫🇮 🇫🇮 🇫🇮 🇫🇮 🇫🇮 🇫🇮 🇫🇮 🇫🇮 🇫🇮 🇫🇮 🇫🇮

Emil Jacobs - Collectifission Jul 27, 2025

@vlepy @benroyce Leftist memes on stickers though.

Magnus Ahltorp Jul 27, 2025

@vlepy We have “solved” that in Sweden. It’s illegal to charge fees here as well, but we have made sure the public schools have to take all the burdens while the private get as much money without the burdens.

Laust Jul 27, 2025

@ahltorp @vlepy same galaxy brain solution here in Denmark :(

Magnus Ahltorp Jul 27, 2025

@Laust @vlepy But if I understand correctly, private schools are not allowed to make a profit in Denmark. In Sweden, there are no limits. And they do make profits, huge ones.

Expertenkommision Cyberunfall Jul 27, 2025

Germany, same rule, but the system is broken for everyone except the schools which found a way around

Catherine Schmidt Jul 27, 2025

@vlepy Finland is far ahead of us and so much more civilized.

Martin Vermeer (not Jesus)Jul 27, 2025

@vlepy It's only illegal to charge Finnish students, and thus today, students from the EU. Students from the outside are fair game 🙁

Sensitivityi Jul 27, 2025

@vlepy what an enlightened approach. A shift from separation consciousness to unity consciousness.

NoNotMeNotMeNo Jul 27, 2025

@vlepy Which is how medicare works in Canada. Well, docs CAN charge fees, but they cannot put a surcharge on medicare reimbursements, so that private medicine is 100% privately funded, which is too expensive and so doesn't exist. So rich people have every incentive to keep the public system decent.

stefan Jul 27, 2025

@vlepy @publicvoit
this is a bit simplified. 🇫🇮 some context: https://www.aacrao.org/edge/emergent-news/private-education-is-not-prohibited-in-finland

Private education is not prohibited in Finland

Toni Aittoniemi Jul 27, 2025

@vlepy 💙🙇🏻‍♂️🤍

Kevin Russell Jul 27, 2025

Best schools on earth. Both in testing academic comparisons, and in meeting Finns.

drdr6262 Jul 27, 2025

I really wish we could do this in the UK, or at least in Scotland. The impact of keeping all the education system entirely public would be huge.

Nuwagaba Gift Jul 27, 2025

@vlepy
Am really inspired by what's taking place on that country. Indeed education in Finland is a great equaliser. Which type of education is taught to children in Finland?

Gerard Cunningham ✒️Jul 27, 2025

Finland also figured out you could tackle homelessness by <checks notes> giving people homes.

Feels like there's some lessons everyone could learn there.

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2018/02/how-finland-solved-homelessness/

Tim Jul 27, 2025

@vlepy Hi! I'm Tim. Wow, like, Jesus Christ?

𝔅icyclet𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰 Jul 27, 2025

@vlepy Same goes for hospitals.

Jimjam Jul 27, 2025

@vlepy
But think of all the board members and private donors that can’t make money off of exploiting people wanting to get a decent education! /s

SBaldrick Jul 28, 2025

@vlepy recipe for disaster. Rich families will condition their investments to the content of tuition. This is how you get conservative, reactionary or revisionist teaching.
Just make them pay their fair share of taxes and let the state do its job

Melina Verde Jul 28, 2025

Traduction:

En Finlande, il est illégal de demander des frais de scolarité, ce qui signifie que les enfants riches doivent se mélanger aux enfants normaux, ce qui signifie que les familles riches doivent s'assurer que les écoles fréquentées par leurs enfants sont de bonne qualité, ce qui signifie que les riches ont été incités à investir dans les écoles publiques. Bravo la Finlande !

En France on fait l'inverse, on nourrit le separatisme des plus riches, et on voit le résultat !

Bill Seitz Jul 28, 2025

@vlepy Finland spends less on K-12 education per-student-year than the US.
Also, when your country has fewer people than NYC, and your immigrant % of less than half the US average, you can do things a bit differently.
(I'm a fan of their school autonomy.)

Bill Seitz Jul 28, 2025

@vlepy I've been anti-monoculture for decades, and I think some fellow US-ians are now FindingOut there are some big risks there....

Bill Seitz Jul 28, 2025

@vlepy Also, while the 1%ers can exit easily, private-school tuition, esp if you have multiple kids, is pretty painful for even 5%ers, so if they felt they could improve their public school the would rather do that.

CassandraVert Jul 28, 2025

@vlepy We used to do that.
We had a rich retired couple on one side and a car up on blocks in the front yard of the house on the other side.

No gated communities.

We sold that house to a family with 5 kids and 2 disabled parents. The government helped them get the house. This really happened.

@vlepy #1 in the world

JohnnieMac Jul 28, 2025

@vlepy that is not far-right, that is so right!

#wellregulatedcapitalism can work well.

Leisaa Jul 29, 2025

@vlepy @coucou is it?

TawdryHepburn Aug 12, 2025

This lamp post has better political position than 98% of politicians, but then you can't bribe lamp posts.