There is no government public school with Jewish as the language of instruction, declared the Jewish Deputy, Isaac Gruenbaum, during the debate on the educational budget at a Sejm session. Deputy Gruenbaum pointed out that while there wasn’t a single government public school with Jewish as the language of instruction, of each thousand school children of Polish nationality a thousand attend elementary schools with Polish as the language of instruction, 553 out of every 1,000 German children attend schools with German as the language of instruction, 273 out of each 1,000 Lithuanian children attend schools where Lithuanian is the language of instruction and 41 White Russian children out of each thousand of them attend schools where their language is used for instruction.
He also declared that the teachers’ positions in the government public schools for Jewish children where Polish is the language of instruction were filled mostly by non-Jews. Of a total of 4,800 teachers there are 1,889 Jewish teachers in these schools.
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