The Club of Deputies of the Polish Socialist Party (P. P. S.) has drafted a Bill to regulate the organization of the school system of the National Minorities in Poland, which is to be submitted to the Sejm shortly. The Bill provides for the establishment of a separate school system for each national minority. The language of instruction in the schools of the National Minorities will be the mother tongue of the children attending the schools. The school system of the National Minorities will be maintained by the Government and the local authorities, on the same lines as other general schools.
The scope of the bill extends only to the Ukrainian. White Russian, Lithuanian and German minorities. The organization of the Jewish school system, according to the provisions of the Bill, is to be left over to be regulated by a special law because the question of the language of instruction in the Jewish schools cannot, as in the case of other minorities, be settled by the simple formula that the language of instruction will be the mother tongue of the children, since there are Jewish schools with Hebrew as the language of instruction and Jewish Schools with Yiddish as the language of instruction. The Club of Deputies of the P. P. S. intends therefore to draft, in agreement with the interested Jewish bodies, a separate Bill to regulate the Jewish school system. The idea of putting the Jewish minority into a special privileged category is regarded in Jewish circles with disfavor.
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