{"id":11923,"date":"2025-06-10T13:27:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T11:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kressurs.no\/?p=11923"},"modified":"2025-11-30T16:14:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T15:14:30","slug":"skolens-verdigrunnlag-er-ikke-pridefarget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kressurs.no\/en\/skolens-verdigrunnlag-er-ikke-pridefarget\/","title":{"rendered":"The school's values are not pride-based."},"content":{"rendered":"

Director of Education Morten Rosenkvist claims in VG<\/a> that raising the rainbow flag and celebrating pride is \u201ccompletely in line with the fundamental values the school is built on\u201d. But what values is he really talking about? Is it the school\u2019s official value base, as formulated in the Education Act and the overall part of the curriculum? It is clear and speaks against Rosenkvist. According to Education Act<\/a> \u00a7 1-1, the school's education "shall be based on fundamental values in Christian and humanistic heritage and tradition, such as respect for human dignity, freedom of thought, charity, forgiveness, equality and solidarity."\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The overall curriculum reiterates this and emphasizes that all forms of discrimination should be opposed and that the school should show respect for the beliefs of individuals. Note the word \u201call\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The school's values are not based on ideology<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

How can the school system's value system be reconciled with forcing the entire school community to celebrate pride? Some believe that pride only represents love and diversity, but in practice pride is a political celebration. Pride is used as an arena to influence society at large with its ideological beliefs about gender and sexuality. For many, the politics behind pride are undesirable and that makes pride political, which is why the problem of pride in schools arises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Should the values in our shared school really be linked to the use of symbols and an ideology that many parents and students experience as offensive, incompatible with their beliefs and values, and which is increasingly used to question biological gender, norms of cohabitation, and parental rights?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A safe school environment \u2013 for whom?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

When Rosenkvist uses terms like \u201csafety\u201d, \u201cacceptance\u201d and \u201chuman dignity\u201d to defend pride celebrations, he does so with words that are already defined in the legislation \u2013 but he empties them of their original content. Human dignity, as it is anchored in the Education Act, is built on a heritage where the child should develop their identity in an inclusive and diverse community \u2013 not be shaped according to a completely new gender and sexual policy norm that many parents experience as an overstep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A safe school environment is not one where children are forced to participate in pride parades, create pride art, or learn that gender is \u201ca feeling.\u201d A safe school environment is one where children are allowed to be children\u2014and where students who identify as a third gender and students who stand up for only two should both feel equally valuable. This is the core of the school\u2019s values: everyone should be seen, heard, and respected\u2014even those who say no to pride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is time for the Norwegian Directorate of Education and school leaders around the country to remember what the values actually say \u2013 and stop using them as a rhetorical shield to promote one particular orthodoxy. The school's values are not actually pride-colored. They are preferably red, white and blue. It is easy to agree that the Norwegian flag unites the people and brings together all students, while we can safely conclude that the view of and use of the pride flag divides us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is the right thing to do?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The obvious right choice is to stop pushing pride into schools and kindergartens. It is everyone's right according to the schools' values. With the law in hand, parents can safely propose not to fly pride flags in schools, kindergartens and public buildings where they live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Utdanningsdirekt\u00f8r Morten Rosenkvist hevder i VG at \u00e5 heise regnbueflagget og markere pride er \u201chelt i tr\u00e5d med de grunnleggende verdiene skolen er bygget p\u00e5\u201d. Men hvilke verdier snakker han egentlig om? Er det skolens offisielle verdigrunnlag, slik det st\u00e5r formulert i oppl\u00e6ringsloven og l\u00e6replanens overordnede del? Den er tydelig og taler i mot Rosenkvist. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":54,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aktuelt","category-pride"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kressurs.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kressurs.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kressurs.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kressurs.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kressurs.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kressurs.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kressurs.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kressurs.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kressurs.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kressurs.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}