"Is that the Taj Mahal?" "No, I was in the Himalayas." "There." "Didn't you know that?" "Spaghetti." "Meatballs." "And vegetables." "Ta-dah!" "I actually missed your cooking." "It's the Stockholm syndrome." "What's that?" "When you fall in love with your captor." "It's another word for marriage." "Speaking of, Bitten says hi." "She does?" "No, she doesn't actually." "Jeppe, have some." "Yeah." "As we're all gathered here tonight, I've splurged on these fancy, green napkins." "Do you recall collecting napkins?" "I recall you finding my collection." "The first time you told me I was gay." "Was that before or after you made leather outfits for your action figures?" "Very funny." "OK, it was before." "Jette says our family is hypersexualized." "It's not our fault she doesn't get any." "I bet she pees through her belly button." "I've missed having you all here." "I really missed you too, Mom." "My little babies." "We're not that little." "You're right." "Ricco's a dad." "Molly travels the world." "It's lucky you're scared of everything, so you won't go anywhere." "Jeppe." "What's up?" "I was thinking..." "David got an apartment." "And he asked if I wanted to move in together." "You've got to." "Yeah, totally." "Do you want to?" "Yes." "Well..." "Well, of course, then..." "Congratulations!" "Cheers." "Cheers." "Yeah, cheers, dammit." "Hi." "Good morning, girls." "Good morning." "Good morning." "Hi." "Hey, Kasper and Johan." "Get up." "What are you doing?" "Alright, I think we'll just..." "Hjørdis?" "Thank you. ...that we'll get started." "As you might have heard already, Ove handed in his resignation." "It's unfortunate to lose a teacher this early in the school year." "Two." "Teachers." "Two teachers." "Lotte went on sick leave." "She found Asger using a closet as a toilet again." "In home ec?" "In the science lab." "Yes, two." "So we're a bit pressed, but I'll take care of it and find a solution." "Sorry, I had to intervene in a minor civil war in the hallway." "But I'm not the only one who's late." "Ove quit." "Ah, another one." "Was it reform depression or the inclusion blues?" "Inclusion." "Asger pooped in the closet again." "OK." "What are we doing about that?" "Call in sick, apparently." "Yes, that or quit." "Or stay and work our fingers to the bone." "I'm trying to find extra resources." "It's hard right now." "It's important that we work together to make this work." "Something has to happen soon." "I know that the changes are difficult, but we're a school with room for everyone." "...who actually learn something." "If you end up special ed., it's hard to return to the normal school system." "That's a fact, Rita." "We also have a student who craps in a closet." "We don't have the right resources." "Let's put some toilet paper in there." "We don't have the resources for that." "You're all funny as shit." "Speaking of." "Shit!" "Yeah, alright, fine!" "Let's stop there." "Good." "Stop, Jonas, now!" "I'll post about the job opening, so we can find a replacement for Ove." "Thank you." "Have a good week." "Rita, would you join me in my office?" "Have a nice day." "See you." "Have a seat, Rita." "I have classes." "Yes..." "Come on." "We can spend five minutes managing our expectations, so have a seat." "Alright." "I'm ready to manage." "Rita, don't you want to optimize your own situation?" "Yes, Helle, if I understood what you're talking about." "I don't think you're living up to your full potential where you are now." "Where we are." "No...?" "So maybe there are other paths to follow." "For you." "Less antagonistic paths." "So you're asking me to find a new job?" "Not in so many words." "No, then you would make sense." "Am I fired?" "I wouldn't say that." "OK, what are you trying to say?" "Can you say it so that I understand it?" "You should keep yourself open to look for work with new employers." "Is that how you solve staffing issues?" "I surround myself with good employees." "And you and I..." "Rita." "It can't be satisfying for you either." "Manage expectations, my ass." "Yup, democracy." "Democracy, what is it?" "How does it work?" "What do we use it for?" "What is democracy?" "Lina?" "Democracy is when you decide something with others." "Lina is right." "Democracy means that several people decide together." "As you know, municipal elections are coming up." "No, you don't know that." "I knew." "My mom is running again, and the polls suggest she'll win." "Yeah, that's fine." "This week we'll have a mock election where the older classes get to vote." "No..." "Yes, and we need candidates." "The candidates must come up with a policy for the best public school system." "I have some assignments here." "There's a lot more information." "And we need to split you into groups." "I'd like to be a candidate." "The groups decide who's running." "We could just vote now." "My mom was elected because she took an initiative." "Who votes for me?" "Niklas." " My vote is totally for you." " OK, let's see some more hands then." "Rita, I already have the support of the people." "OK." "That's great." "We already have one candidate then." "But there's no election with just one candidate." "So who's running against Niklas?" "People are voting in Afghanistan despite risking being blown to pieces." "You guys won't even raise your hands." "OK." "Then we'll have to draw for it." "Let's have a look at the student list." "Kareem." "Huh?" "Niklas and Kareem, you're our candidates." "We'll split you up into two groups." "Like that." "Kareem, you go there." "Get planning." "There are campaigns to design, posters." "Did you start packing yet?" "I'll start tomorrow." "I don't have much." "Jeppe, if it doesn't work out, you can just come back home, alright?" "You're OK with it, right?" "Yeah, totally." "Completely." "You're young and horny." "Of course you should live together." "I've actually always dreamt of having an extra room that was all mine." "Use it for something fun." "Maybe I should get a bondage room." "Where would I sleep on visits?" "In the cage." "Or on the cross." "Why can't I get a normal female role model?" "See, that's where you have David, right?" "Oh, sweetie." "You're going to miss me." "Well, I'll get out of your hair." "Good morning, Inge." "Good morning, Hjørdis." "You're new here." "I'm Uffe." "I'm Hjørdis' boyfriend." "Reform pedagogue!" "And reform pedagogue." "My name is Inge." "I've been a teacher for 58 years." "No, for 38, Inge." "Oh, right." "Well, I'm off to the library." "See you." "Yes, hey!" "Professionalism." "I can't kiss you?" "We need to keep our work and private lives separate." "Not to do so would be unprofessional." "OK." "I just want to..." "Professionalism!" "Have a nice day then, Hjørdis." "Thanks, you too, Uffe." "Good." "Well, let's hear what the candidates have come up with." "Yes, I made an overview of my top three key issues." "Wow." "It looks very professional." "Yeah, my mom's campaign manager helped me out." "OK, we should have tests to target education to each individual's needs." "OK, and you want use this to split the students up?" "Yes, expel them if necessary." "There has to be a lower limit." "Yes, but the public school system shows solidarity with one and all." "Apparently not the best students." "My mom says we can't compete if the lowest common denominator decides." "By which you mean those of your classmates that don't pass your annual tests?" "Because they contribute so much." "I'm going to the bathroom." "We're not done." "I have to go pee." "Why should I suffer because of them?" "Not everyone has a campaign manager to help with their homework." "You learn that in public school, too." "And that's all." "Niklas, why are you even here then?" "When my mom is re-elected, I'm going to private school." "I see." "Wasn't your mom's key issue good public school for everyone." "I guess I just have special needs." "I'm certain you do." "Have you done a lot?" "Yes." "It's so weird." "People go to the toilet in the weirdest places at this school." "Why didn't you prepare anything?" "What for?" "Because you want to win?" "I may be a dumb Paki, but I'm not that dumb." "Niklas will win." "His mom is the mayor." "It's a waste of time." "What kind of public school do you want?" "I want a school with no homework that lets you take naps." "There are your key issues, Kareem." "Write them down before you forget." "You could also talk about how a public school could be where you and others like you didn't feel like you had lost in advance." "I'll see you in class when you've been to the toilet." "There was no marten." "It was just the neighbor's cat." "I'll never see a marten." "Whoa, professionalism." "I'm reading for my profession." "You have to respect my boundaries and stay on your side of the bed." "You're being a jerk, Uffe." "Sure, but can we discuss it after I'm done preparing." "Go ahead." "No, you first." "Go ahead." "Just get in already." "You're so stupid." "No, you are." "What's going on here?" "Let's cool off." "Ida, why are you and Terkel so mad?" "She won't be my best friend." "I get why that would make you sad, but Ida has a say in it too." "He wants to play all the time, but at school I want to play with the girls." "If you don't play, you can't be best friends." "No, don't be best friends with someone who's only interested half the time." "Maybe Ida needs space to view their relationship in a different light." "Maybe Terkel gets hurt when he's pushed away all the time." "You know what?" "You should hold on to what you said." "You have the right to set boundaries for your friendship and define it." "What does delphine mean?" "Yes, exactly, Ida." "Very good." "Hi, Rita." "Hi, Katrine." "Can I bum one?" "You don't smoke." "Anything to be in your company." "Yes, you too, girls." "Get home safely." "Do you miss Rasmus?" "As principal, I mean." "We have Helle now, right?" "She's so receptive and so competent." "Making Helle principal was Rasmus' biggest mistake." "You want to run the caliphate." "Yes, of course I do." "Because you know what you're doing." "I always know what I'm doing." "You know what to do to keep the remaining teachers on?" "Yes." "I definitely wouldn't bury the workplace assessment." "I didn't think it was done." "It is." "I read it." "What's it say?" "Nothing you don't know." "We lack resources, money for training and for the weakest students." "The inclusion project is in meltdown." "Why doesn't Helle go up the chain with it?" "She thinks she's doing the mayor a favor." "That they have a relationship." "Butt-licker, right?" "I think Helle calls it strategizing." "So..." "So what the school needs is a competent and resourceful character?" "Yes, someone who knows what he wants." "That would spice things up." "It most definitely would." "Jeppe is moving out in a few days, so..." "If you know a competent and resourceful man, you could tell him to swing by next week." "If that sounds interesting." "I'll see if I can find one." "Super." "If it's about Asger, I asked the cleaning crew to deal with it." "Why did you bury the workplace assessment?" "Where did you hear that?" "I couldn't care less, right?" "But the children will suffer." "I don't have to talk to you about this." "No, it's terrible being confronted with your own hypocrisy." "Sometimes you're asked to do bad things that pay off in the long haul." "Asked to?" "An assessment will be written later this year." "No need to overreact." "Later?" "So you want us to cover for the school until the mayor is re-elected?" "You don't get the political game that goes along with this." "The mayor needs a model school for the election." "And you're her little paragon of virtue." "What do you want me to do?" "Release the assessment publicly." "I really wish I could." "Can you go down and print out some more?" "Here you go." "Vote for Niklas." "VOTE FOR KAREEM IF YOU DON'T GIVE 2 FUCKS EITHER." "Have one." "Strengthen the elite." "You can have one free." "Do you want a better school?" "Yes!" "And smokes in the break?" "Yes!" "Have some." "Who will you vote for?" "Kareem!" "Vote for Kareem." "Here you are." "Vote for Niklas." "Throw that away." "Strengthen the elite." "What are you doing?" "Can't you win fair and square?" "What's going on here?" "Why is it unfair that the smartest win?" "Come one, we're starting now." "DEBATE IN THE HALL DURING LUNCH BREAK" "It will be so exciting." "Your son chose yellow, and Kareem is green." "Alright, guys, quiet down!" "Thank you." "Welcome to the debate." "We'll hear the two candidates speak, and you can ask questions afterwards." "And I spy the real mayor." "Maybe you can ask her some questions, too." "I hope you learn something about democracy, so you tell your parents to remember to vote because it's important so that you get a good school." "If it isn't a journalist as well." "Hi there." "If you'd all just remember not to crap in the closets while we're entertaining." "Alright, let's get started." "Niklas, won't you tell us why we should vote for you?" "Yes." "Vote for me because I'm goal-oriented," "I'm socially conscious, and my family is in politics." "where they've been successful, which I intend to carry on here." "Yup." "OK." "Thank you, Niklas." "Kareem, what would you like to change about the public school system?" "I'll just answer that in the meantime" "I want more focus on the best students and better snacks in the cafeteria." "OK." "Kareem, how about you?" "Yes..." "How long do we get to respond?" "Let's take another question for you, Niklas." "Can you remedy the fact that teachers are quitting or suffering from acute stress?" "What is she talking about?" "I don't know." "They could stop spending such a long time swilling coffee." "A workplace assessment has been drawn up, which shows..." "I encourage the journalist to request right of access to the document." "It shows that lots of teachers are fleeing this school." "There are too few resources to take care of the more demanding students." "Right, Niklas?" "I don't know." "I see." "Your mother's office was responsible for the assessment." "Would you please stop this?" "I don't know." "My mother is the one to ask, right?" "Yes, and I think she will be asked." "Public school should be a place where you can come even though you've been told that you're just a nobody." "You have to want it because then you can be a somebody after all." "Yeah, that's just what I think." "My election platform is the public school, and if there are those problems and, mind you, I haven't read the assessment, then we'll look into it." "Hi, we haven't met before." "Alice Verner." "Rita Madsen." "That's so pretty." "I'd wear that if I weren't the mayor." "Focusing on democracy was Rita's idea." "Great." "It's important to have committed teachers in our schools." "As long as there are teachers left." "If those problems exist, then, of course, we'll look into it." "We also have a student that craps in a closet." "We received 28 new inclusion children at this school and they all have learning disabilities, but we haven't received extra funding." "We need supplementary training and more staff." "We need money." "The kids are falling through the cracks." "Is this the first you're hearing of it, or is it all in the assessment?" "I haven't studied it in detail, but it's my top priority." "Did I hear that right?" "Will she find some money for us?" "Municipal budgets aren't that simple." "But we'll definitely have a look at it." "Nice meeting you." "You too." "What are you doing?" "Surfing for porn." "What?" "What what?" "Whoa..." "Thanks." "Hey, professionalism." "But I was just getting my mug." "You grazed my body in a way unbefitting for colleagues." "What's going on with you two?" "I get why you and Rasmus broke up." "Good morning, Uffe." "Good morning, Rita." "You're too close." "I forgot the safety distance." "You're being stupid and sarcastic." "You're just stupid." "Oh, you made up again?" "Yeah." "On Wednesdays." "And during lunch." "Yeah, and at home, of course." "We came to one of those compromafries." "A compromise." "That's where we both get to decide." "That sounds like a really good idea." "And very grown-up." "I'm sorry, Uffe." "No, I'm sorry." "I really wanted to snuggle last night." "Gross!" "Are you boyfriend and girlfriend?" "Yes." "Yes, we are." "All the time." "And everywhere." "VOTING BOX" "Wow, Kareem." "And I thought you didn't care about the election or anything." "And there you are." "Though I told you that the winner will be announced later." "Chill out, Rita." "And why, Niklas." "Nice of you to come." "See you, Rita." "Yes, see you." "Bye bye." "I know I'm just a coffee swilling teacher but I am able to count to 100 on my own." "So you don't need to help me out." "You weren't allowed to mention the assessment." "Helle could fire you." "That doesn't worry me right now." "You tried to sabotage me." "I asked a question." "That's allowed." "Especially to those who cover up the truth." "Talk to your mother about that." "You might as well give it up." "I talked to everyone, and I won by four votes." "What do you know, you did." "Niklas' pile." "One, two, three, four and five." "Oops." "Now Kareem won." "You can't do that!" "I just did." "I'll tell you cheated." "And look like a sore loser?" "But that's not democracy." "No, it's not." "It's public school." "And here, teachers are in charge." "Hello, can you hear me?" "Alright, quiet now." "Yes." "Well, the time has come to reveal the results of your tantalizing election campaign." "First, I would just like to applaud your efforts." "Good work, both teams." "Give them a round of applause." "Yes." "Are you ready?" "Exciting." "With, oh my, a single vote the victory is Kareem's." "Congratulations!" "Next stop, parliament." "Come on up." "Thank you." "I'm very pleased to win." "Thanks to everyone who voted for me." "Kareem, Kareem, Kareem!" "Rita!" "Just spill it." "Won't you sit?" "Firing me can't take that long." "Again." "This is difficult for me." "I want to ask you..." "Cut it out." "I leaked a classified report, alright?" "I insulted your dear mayor." "Just fire me already." "No, I want you to stay on." "Say what?" "I received a call." "The mayor read the assessment, and they found some extra funding." "Some." "OK." "That sounds fantastic." "Why?" "It's her way of burying it." "Clever girl." "It's not a bad idea to have someone who will say all the things I don't want to." "Want to?" "Can." "Can?" "Dare." "You like the results I get." "And I can admit to my mistakes." "Hey." "How about that visit?" "Yeah, I could go for some of that." "Scolding?" "No, I don't think you can call it that." "What?" "Come on, what?" "We decided to start over." "It was almost like conversing with a real human being." "OK." "Yeah." "So I'm going to aid her." "You're aiding Helle?" "Yup." "But..." "Jeppe is moving, so send that strong, resourceful man by if you want." "No, I don't think so." "You don't think so?" "No." "OK." "Could you translate for me?" "No." "I think you're capable of figuring it out on your own." "Hi, Rita." "Let's load the boxes first." "No, these first." "Do you need some help?" "No, no, this is the last one." "I could help carry up things the stairs." "David will be there." "OK, Jeppe, I've got it." "Do you have it?" "Yup, I'll carry it to the car." "Mom?" "What?" "Are you OK with this?" "I've looked forward to this for 18 years." "Now I can do whatever I feel like." "Haven't you always done that?" "Come here." "My son." "My big son." "My big, big boy." "Alright, scram." "I want to smoke." "In your old room." "Are you coming?" "Yeah." "See you, Mom." "See you." "See you, Mom." "Bye." "Jeppe?" "Jeppe, don't you want this lamp?" "No, David has one." "It's my gift for your new space-for-yourself room." "OK." "Bye bye." "Bye." "Translation:" "Mathias Hedetoft BTI Studios"