Parents in Vantaa were not amused by their school asking them to fund a pricey excursion.A school in Vantaa is planning a parent-funded class trip to Helsinki's Linnanmäki amusement park. Image: Mikko Ahmajärvi / YleZena Iovino9:09In Finland, public schools are not supposed to ask parents for money. Helsingin Sanomat explores how a proposed ninth-grade trip to the Linnanmäki amusement park is testing this principle.The Vantaa school has been collecting 44 euros per kid to fund the outing, despite Finnish law requiring basic education to be free.In 2019, Pasi Pölönen, the deputy parliamentary ombudsman, ruled that school trips must be free and that their family finances must not compromise pupils' equality.Katri Kalske, Vantaa's deputy mayor, told HS she will investigate the case, while stressing that schools cannot oblige parents to pay for class excursions.Finnish AI firstAI firm Anthropic has agreed to pay 1.5 billion dollars to 120,000 authors in a landmark copyright settlement after being accused of using a database of more than 480,000 pirated books to train Claude, its AI model."They have probably also trained their models on Finnish books, but I don't think they'll get a penny in compensation. No one in Finland could initiate a process like that," Finnish author Harri Luukkanen told Hufvudstadsbladet.He is, however, among those set to receive compensation. His 2020 work, Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of Northern Eurasia, published by American Smithsonian Books, was allegedly included in the dataset."The compensation is a drop in the ocean compared with the work involved," he said, noting that the project took him 15 years to complete."Three thousand dollars is a nice bonus, but it doesn't come close to covering the cost," he told the paper.Warming upTemperatures across much of Finland are expected to climb to around 20 degrees Celsius on Monday, according to Finnish Meteorological Institute meteorologist (FMI) Antti Jylhä-Ollila.However, summer heat — officially defined in Finland as temperatures above 25 degrees — is unlikely to arrive just yet, according to Iltalehti.The warmest conditions are forecast for the east and south-east of the country, where temperatures could reach as high as 23 degrees on Monday.