After ten years in the Labor Party, writer and mayoral candidate Linn T. Sunne resigns – news Innlandet – Local news, TV and radio

Author, literary promoter and teacher from Dokka was Nordre Land’s mayoral candidate both in 2019 and last year. During Thursday’s municipal council meeting, Linn T. Sunne announced that she was going to resign from “the party in my heart”. – Yes, it is personal. It is my local community, my school, our young people. And my party is in charge of this, she said about why she is resigning from the Labor Party after ten years. The background is the debate about school closures, where Dokka high school is one of six schools and school sites that are proposed to be closed. Matter of heart: Children and young people It was OA who first reported the news. – The start of a good life is laid with a good and safe childhood. Nothing is more important than laying the foundations for good health, learning and education, so that young people can have a good life, she said from the podium. The local community drummed together for a torchlight procession for Dokka upper secondary school earlier this week, as several villages in Innlandet have done. Linn T. Sunne says it is frustrating not to be able to give the residents good answers. Photo: Stine Bækkelien / news The former winner of the Brage Prize shared an experience of parties who were deep in their respective trenches, and who are unable to listen to each other. That her own party in the county, together with the Conservative Party and MDG, is going to close down six schools and school sites including her own upper secondary school, Dokka, is too much for her. – I cannot vouch for being part of this process. It goes against my heart, and is not in line with the values ​​that underlie our local party program, she said, and informed that at the next municipal council meeting she would stand as an independent. Sunne added that her withdrawal was in no way a criticism of Nordre Land Arbeiderparti. Why is everyone arguing about schools in the interior? – Following the gut feeling After the meeting, Sunne told news that it was not with a light heart that she informed her own municipal council group about the decision just before the meeting. – I have to follow my own gut feeling. But it is not easy to opt out of a party and a community for which I have a big heart. In 2007, Linn T. Sunne received the Brage Prize for the children’s novel Happy. In 2012, she received the School Librarian’s Association’s literature prize for her writing, and the Brage prize in the open class for the youth book Lille ekorn. Photo: Lars Erik Skrefsrud / news – Wouldn’t it have been easier to fight school closures from within? – It can happen. But I think we have been doing that for a long time without being particularly successful, so there is great local frustration. I am confident that our manager will continue to work internally. Heated debate The debate about school structure in Innlandet county has been heated. The position consisting of the Labor Party, the Conservative Party and the MDG is for closing down two schools and four school sites: Skarnes and Dokka upper secondary schools, the Dombås and Lom sites at Nord-Gudbrandsdal upper secondary school, and Flisa and Sønsterud at Solør upper secondary school. This is the time in the school case These are proposed to be closed: Skarnes and Dokka upper secondary schools As well as the Nordstumoen schools at Storsteigen upper secondary school, Dombås and Lom at Nord-Gudbrandsdal upper secondary school and Flisa at Solør upper secondary school. In addition, several changes are proposed in the offers at several schools .The governing parties Labor, Conservative Party and MDG agree on a joint proposal similar to the administration’s, except that Nordstumoen is spared.Sp, SV, Rødt, Venstre, the Industrial and Business Party, the Pensioners Party and KrF have previously said that they want to postpone the whole matter , while it is not yet known what the FRP will go for. Despite protests from students outside the county hall, the main committee for education decided to close two upper secondary schools and four schools: Dokka and Skarnes upper secondary schools, as well as schools at Lom and Dombås in Nord- Gudbrandsdal upper secondary school, and Flisa and Sønsterud at Solør upper secondary school. Show more Published 17/10/2024, at 20.08 Updated 17.10.2024, at 21.06



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