Purra wants to close Finland's education agency following her party's accusations of 'woke ideology' (yle.fi)
from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 08 Aug 18:53
https://lemmy.world/post/34152848

When Finland’s finance minister Riikka Purra (Finns) revealed her draft budget proposal on Wednesday, her plans to abolish the Finnish National Agency for Education garnered much attention and reaction.

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NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz on 08 Aug 19:49 next collapse

You might as well just say you don’t want people to be educated at all with a statement like that.

random_character_a@lemmy.world on 09 Aug 06:26 collapse

Well educated are not really the True Fins base.

nao@sh.itjust.works on 08 Aug 20:15 next collapse

Finland why

Noerttipertti@sopuli.xyz on 08 Aug 21:22 collapse

Because unfortunately country is currently run by our equivalents of Reagan style republicans (National coalition party) and Maga (True Finns).

chosensilence@pawb.social on 09 Aug 00:37 next collapse

there are many counties dealing with fascism infiltrating. Romania is horrifying atm.

TaTTe@lemmy.world on 09 Aug 06:48 collapse

To be fair, this mainly seems lika Purra being Purra, or in other words, a lunatic. This is only her proposal for new budget cuts and none of the other government parties have agreed with them so far.

In fact, even the NCP have said this proposal doesn’t seem reasonable and will need a lot of negotiation to even become somewhat feasible. Let’s see this autumn where the negotiations lead us, but I don’t believe most of it will make it into the budget plan.

droopy4096@lemmy.ca on 08 Aug 21:19 next collapse

does anyone actually know what falls under Finland’s educational agency?

Takapapatapaka@tarte.nuage-libre.fr on 09 Aug 06:09 collapse

From what i get from English wikipedia, it's mainly preparing curricula for basic and secondary education, participating in the education field's regulations, and acting as a central organizer for administrative things relating to education.

drmoose@lemmy.world on 09 Aug 06:31 next collapse

ITT no one actually read the article. It seems to just put private institution resources under government education institute - basically all of Europe already does that right?

lime@feddit.nu on 09 Aug 06:51 collapse

the education agency is still a state-run organisation, but separate from any political institutions in order to not color the education plan any particular way. that’s what they want to change.

random_character_a@lemmy.world on 09 Aug 06:34 next collapse

Purra is always very happy to announce her cuts and has that smirk on her face.

She’s getting off somehow BDSM style, nation wide.

Or is it just resulting attention and munchausen syndrome?

fittedsyllabi@lemmy.world on 09 Aug 11:10 collapse

She looks retarded. Yes, I said it.

phutatorius@lemmy.zip on 11 Aug 15:11 collapse

With a face like that, there’s a plausible explanation as to why she’s got a grudge against the whole world.