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> now they want to ban russophone schools There is nothing about banning Russian language schools. It's about shifting state funding from Russian language to E
by Strom 4y ago
> now they want to ban russophone schools
There is nothing about banning Russian language schools. It's about shifting state funding from Russian language to Estonian language. Privately funded Russian schools can keep operating. It's also not out of the blue, this has been talked about for over 30 years now. The latest developments are also still just more talk, no actual action has happened.
As for the culture of coldness, that is true. That also means though that if someone is nice to you, it's genuine. I personally much prefer this truthfulness to the USA style of fake niceness.
- Kretinsky 4y agoThe State currently fund the vast majority of schools, among which many are russian-speaking. Forcing those schools to switch to Estonian, without having enough teachers to do it, is going to create a lot of problems. The solution found was to degrade the teacher's level, by authorizing anyone with a university diploma to teach. Please read those articles from the State-sponsored media: https://news.err.ee/1608774058/julianna-jurtsenko-switch-to-teaching-in-estonian-could-end-in-disaster https://news.err.ee/1608774058/julianna-jurtsenko-switch-to-... https://news.err.ee/1608751774/deputy-mayor-language-transition-hindered-by-lack-of-teachers-resources https://news.err.ee/1608751774/deputy-mayor-language-transit... Also, there are plans to prevent russian-speaking people to enter politics. This is a problem in places like Narva where 99% of the population speaks Russian. https://news.err.ee/1608778132/ministry-calls-for-assessing-local-councilors-estonian-language-levels https://news.err.ee/1608778132/ministry-calls-for-assessing-...