Children from different backgrounds, cultures and home environments attend school everyday. The educational system of today focus on the importance for every individual pupil to take responsibility, in order to gain knowledge. From an early age should the pupils learn how to work independant and take responsibility for their education. My questian, and what I have decided to discuss in this paper, is wether everyone has the same opportunity to gain knowlwdge and learn trough this method. In preperation for this essay I read litterature where the authors claims that this kind of educational system is not for everyone, but it benefits those pupils that comes from a middleclass background.

So, is our school system fair and equal? Can everyone, no matter what social and cultural group they belong to, get the education thay have right to? In order to get a deeper understanding I interviewed three teachers that works in different schools. The conclusion in this paper is based on these interviews, so it is not to be generalized. The paper has three major hedings; The national curriculum and individual responsibility, those who benefits, how does one help?

The results of the paper, and the conlclusion of the interviews, shows that it is crucial for the pupils to have been thaught from a very young age, to take responsibility for their own learning. The teachers also agreed that those who benifits from this kind of educational system has supportive parents that value the need of education. This despite which ethnic, social or cultural group they belong to. All pupils must be aware of the curriculum, and the teaching needs to be individualized.