The subject of this essay is to further explore how social studies teachers and high school students perceive quality within the Swedish school system with the help of an inductive study conducted from semi structured interviews with a selected group of five teachers and 15 students. The idea behind the study comes from a previous essay that analyzed the last 30 years of school reforms linked to the negative performance trend from Swedish students in international tests such as PISA and TIMSS that has sparked a national debate between politicians and journalists with the object to promote quality improvement within the Swedish school system. The study showed that quality is a personal and complex “opinion” that seems to be hard to define. Students and teachers have a radical different view of what quality is which complicates the foundation that the Swedish school system is built on.