18 settembre 2025|
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|3 months agoLanguage Education Shift: St. Gallen Joins Zurich in Postponing French Classes
St. Gallen becomes the second major Swiss canton to vote for delaying French language education to secondary school, challenging national language harmony policies.
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- The St. Gallen parliament voted to postpone French teaching from primary school to secondary school.
- The specific change involves moving French instruction from the 5th year of primary school to the 1st year of secondary school.
- St. Gallen joins Zurich and Appenzell Outer-Rhodes in voting to delay French education.
- The decision contradicts the HarmoS inter-cantonal agreement.
- A proposal to replace French with English in secondary schools was rejected.
By The Numbers
88 to 24
vote count
2 years
time
108 to 64
vote count
7th
school year
They Said
"A very serious knife cut to national cohesion."
"Calls into question the compromise on languages and questions the way we live together."