Norway calls the time when the school letters are ras

After 13 years of school, the Selm Jenvin-Steinsvg and her classmate Axel ran to catch the Oslo subway in the red overalls. “After that, all our written exams will be made,” said Selm, 18.

View of school letters known here as RussianWalking in a colorful overalls is something tradition that illuminates the Norway National Day on May 17.

It means the day Russian Finally it can relax after the exams and hold one last party. But to increase the number of young Norwegians, the parties start from weeks earlier, long before their exams are over.

And there are one side of the festivities that are increasingly disturbed by parents and politicians – Russian bus.

“This is a party! Says 19-year-old Edward Anestad, who graduates from the school on the west side of Oslo.

Fear is that all weeks of parties, as well as peer pressure, have a detrimental effect on the overall well -being of adolescents, as well as their assessments.

Smooth happiness is often carried out to rent buses and filling them, and many school letters go to the debt to pay for everything.

“ Russian bus Ride all night from the north to early morning. We play a very, very loud music and party all night, “says Edward friend Henryk Wat, who is 18 years old.

Along with all the fun, there were complaints that the celebrations lead to strong drinking, drug use and little. There are also problems that many teens feel left out because they cannot afford costs.

And all this currently coincides with the exam period.

Last year, Prime Minister Jonas Gar said he also enjoyed graduation, but the culture of party buses came out of control.

His intervention occurred after many years of public discussions, with the objections of the authorities, as well as many with school livs and their parents.

“We are going through some negative trends in our schools and neighborhoods, as well as in Norwegian youth culture as a whole,” says Solveig Hukenes AAS, whose older child will finish this year.

Her two young children should still start high school, and she complains that culture also affects young teenagers: “In recent years, it has also started to influence high school children.”

Together with other parents, she created a group aimed at making the environment for young people safer.

“Earlier the attitude towards the school authorities was that it is a private business that Russian The celebration is what is happening in her free time, ”she said to the BBC.

“But teachers, directors and school bodies have changed in the mentality, and now it is widely recognized that the new Russian Culture has a huge impact on the school environment. “

Norway’s Minister of Education Curry Neso Nordun said it was “the problem that the celebrations and the exam period were intertwined.”

She told the BBC that there were difficulties in the school’s schools due to the parties, and the results decreased because of this.

“The celebration has also become highly commercialized and exclusive, and we see that these negative consequences are extended to the lower high school.

“We want to put an end to social exception, peer pressure and high cost for many young people. We are now working on creating a new and more inclusive prom.”

Now the plan is to postpone the celebration from next year after the withdrawal.

The tradition of party buses goes back to Oslo in the early 1980s and is usually more common among some more elite schools.

But now it has become a national scale, and Ivar Brandvol, who wrote about the tradition, believes that the whole essence of the bus has changed, so the bus celebrations no longer include the whole school class, but a more selected group.

“Another change is the amount of money needed to participate in the bus group. Some of the bus groups will have a budget up to 3 million (220,000 pounds), even if they decide to just rent it,” he says.

“Sound systems are shipped from all over Europe. To pay bills, groups often sell toilet paper to friends, families and neighbors for a small profit. But children must sell tones toilet paper to earn enough, and usually use savings and receipt.”

In Norway, there is a broad recognition that bus culture of school letters should be scaled back.

The government is also concerned about the potential risks for teens when they dance on buses traveling at night.

“We want this graduation class this year to become the last class, which is allowed to use red-books with side seat and standing room while driving,” says John-Ivard, Norway Minister. “We can no longer send our young people to dangerous buses.”

For many future school Libyrs in Norway, the government’s plan is too far away.

“The government wants to pick up lateral places in buses and just have group seats. I think it’s the wrong way,” Edward Anestad complains.

And when it comes to solving the problems of bus inclusion, he and his friend Henry believe that the authorities are taking the wrong approach.

Only half of the 120 school libraries in its year were part of the party group, and they agree that the price was high.

But two young people say they spent years planning the celebrations, even getting a job on the side to pay for all experience.

“It will not help exclude the exception,” Edward warns, who notes that the ban on some buses will mean that there will be fewer buses. “If anything, it’s all the opposite, so it’s the wrong way.”