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“If you saw that, you will take one of the big cities around here and say, ‘Well, we will live there and then I can drive to Kalundborg to work,'” regional councillor Helle Laursen Petersen tells me.

She says these schools are struggling to attract experienced teachers, helping to fuel low expectations among many parents.

After all, she says, they think their children will always get a job at the Novo Nordisk factory, so why bother trying to get to university?

Ali, Anna K, Anna and Marie at Gymnasium, the most academic secondary school in the area, tell me they want to leave to study.

“It might become interesting later, but as of now, I think it’s a bit too boring to settle down here – I think I’d like a larger city,” Anna K says.

But Ali and Marie are more excited about coming back after their studies, hopeful of more job opportunities in the town so they can enjoy its natural beauty more.