NORWEGIAN MID-TERM HOLIDAY MOVED BECAUSE OF THE BELIEVE CONCERT!!

This news has kinda made headlines. The mid-term holiday in Norway has been moved up, they were supposed to be on the 16th and 17th of April. You would think that it was because of something to do with school but that is not the case at all. The dates were moved forward from the 16th - 18th of April because of Justin is going to have a three day concert that will be taking place in the capital city, Oslo during those dates.

The principal of Blindheim Ungdomsskole(middle school) in Alesund, Roar Aason told a local TV station TV2:

A lot of students said they wanted to go to the concert. We found out that instead of doing a principally case, we simply moved the mid-terms

There are 500 beliebers and fans(10th graders) are going from five middle schools and 135 of them come from Blindheim Ungdomsskole.

Even Justin tweeted about it:

Justin Bieber ‏@justinbieber

love this. "Schools in Norway move midterms so students can attend Justin Bieber concert" http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2013/04/03/schools-in-norway-move-midterms-so-students-can-attend-justin-bieber-concert/ …

Why couldn´t they do that in Sweden or any other place for that matter? Most of the concert that Justin has been to have been on school days.
This is the full interview with the Principal:
"Didn’t want to move the mid-terms?

- I have no idea how many students at our school that are going to the concert, but there’s many at every middle school here in Ålesund. The case was brought up around christmas. We didn’t really want to move the mid-terms.

I can’t really remember any mid-terms being moved due to concerts, cups, parties, trips, Nationals or other big events that our students have attending before.

- There’s a problem that school don’t come before other activities. We could have use for a stronger set of rules. But we will never move exams. We would’ve never done this if this was math mid-terms either. 

Will this have an impact on the reading time to the mid-term?

- No seeing as the mid-term has been moved forward, it will be a bigger gap between english and norwegian mid-term.

Not Bieber-free at High school.Tor Andreas Dyrseth is assisting principal at Fagerlia videregående skole ( High school) in Ålesund.

- We made the study plan already at the start of this school year, we don’t have any mid-terms around the concerts, but we wouldn’t have made any adjusments for Justin Bieber anyways."