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Alaa E. takes a sheet of paper from her chemistry teacher during class at Lykkeskolen. The decorations on the wall behind her and her friends are from an Eid party, which means feast in Arabic. Lykkeskolen is a friskole, a type of Danish school that has a specific focus in addition to normal public school academics and is also privately funded. Lykkeskolen, which translates from Danish as “happiness school,” places a focus on Islam and Arabic, in addition to mathematics, chemistry, reading comprehension and more.