| Summary: | The purpose of this study is to investigate the indications that exist in teachers' experiences regarding how distance education during the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the school's democracy assignment. The school's democratic assignment has, with the support of previous research, been concretized in three aspects: democratic values, civic abilities and knowledge of politics and society. To answer the purpose, upper secondary school teachers who teach civics-oriented subjects have been interviewed. Their answers have been analyzed from a theoretical framework that Robert Dahl largely stands for, which has been adapted to school organization. The results of the study show that there are signs in the teachers' experiences that indicate that the aspects democratic values and knowledge of politics and society have been negatively affected by distance education during the covid-19 pandemic. Regarding the aspect civic abilities, there are no signs in the teachers' experiences that indicate that the aspect has been affected either negatively or positively at present time. However, there are indications that the aspect was negatively affected at the beginning of the distance education, before both teachers and students had become accustomed to this type of education
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