[Eeko]

> in a system which is open only to those who inherited Finnish citizenship.

False.

In Finland, basic education is a legal obligation for every resident. If you come from abroad and are of sufficient age, you will be placed into school if you don't have a very good reason to not be in one. There are not always enough decent international school places (and most young people lack the language skills to efficiently study in most international facilities), but we do our best to provide the opportunity to learn for every visitor and citizen alike.

Sometimes the mandatory nature of basic schooling puts us in odds with some visitors, since schooling or the school values (e.g. evolution in curricula) is at odds with the visitor families. In those cases, the families might face custody disputes (ignoring proper education is seen as child abuse) vs. the state or deportation. Or both. Home-schoolers are obliged to follow the same standard frame of curricula and I understood they are tested in some extent by authorities.