Borlänge municipality closed around 20 schools on Wednesday morning due to a threat, according to multiple reports. School safety expert Lena Ljungdahl says many school leaders have fresh memories of what can happen after the school shooting at Campus Risbergska in Örebro last year. She says one should not take risks and that difficult assessments are made in coordination with the police.
Ljungdahl says it is 'unreasonable' that one individual can cause such major consequences for society, but even more unreasonable not to err on the side of caution. She says risk of violence against children is never acceptable. Ljungdahl says citizens must accept a large margin of error and chaos because decisions are often made on thin decision bases.
Ljungdahl expects more threats and serious violence situations in Swedish schools. She says Sweden has all the ingredients for new attacks: open schools, children and youth with mental illness, and a society focusing more on reprisals than long-term crime prevention. Kristdemokraterna would have implemented smaller preschool groups and school classes if they governed Borås.
They would have made large savings on municipal bureaucracy. The two major investments in Kristdemokraterna's shadow budget concern children and youth. It is not worthy of Borås city's students.