Daily bread 01/10/2018

• Iran bans English from being taught in primary schools - BBC News

  • Iran bans English from being taught in primary schools
  • a "cultural invasion"
  • strengthening Persian language skills and Iranian Islamic culture
  • Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has previously expressed concern about the teaching of English.
  • seen as an important skill by many Iranians and is widely studied
  • primary schools which teach English as an extra class outside of school hours were committing a "violation
  • anti-Western, isolationist view
  • could lead to "western cultural infiltration"
  • children should be taught other languages like Spanish, French, or eastern languages.
  • President Hassan Rouhani disagrees with him
  • But he had little power to stop the ban
  • unlikely to stop families from pushing their children to learn English.
  • The move comes amid significant turmoil in Iran

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