(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Polish school inspectors in the Eastern Provinces of the Polish republic were instructed to change the policy with regard to the education of the national minorities resident in these provinces, in a circular issued by the Polish Ministry of Education and Religions.
The inspectors were instructed to exercise their duties in favor of all citizens without regard to nationality, race or religion.
They were also warned against exercising “a brutal language assimilation.” Teachers in the public schools are obliged to be familiar with the local tongues, so that they will be able, during the first years of elementary instruction, to converse with the children in their mother language. The Polanizing influence is to be only an influence of culture, the circular says.
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