LL-L "Language policies" 2004.01.09 (02) [D/E]

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From: Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc. <roger.thijs at euro-support.be>
Subject: Education

Read on NOS teletekst (Dutch TV Ceefax) today:

-- quoted as copied from the website version
http://teletekst.nos.nl/tekst/120-02.html
as this page is on 20040110 at 1:25 a.m. WET:

  120     Teletekst za 10 jan
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    Kort binnenlands nieuws

HEERENVEEN Burgemeester De Jonge van  Heerenveen wil dat plattelandsscholen
in Friesland sluiten.Kinderen moeten  dan in grotere plaatsen naar school,
om de leer[a]chterstand van Friese kinderen  te bestrijden.Die zijn relatief
zwak in  lezen en rekenen.
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A proposal by the mayor of Heerenveen to drain kids from rural schools to
schools in towns, for improving their results.

Has this to do with language, since Dutch rather than Frisian is the
conversation language in towns?

Regards,

Roger

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Language policies

[English below]

Bedankt, Roger. Ik zou graag toevoegen dat in Heerenveen niet alleen Frisian
en Nederlands maar ook Nedersaksisch word gebruikt. Zal dit voorstel
misschien een poging zijn om een ongelegen veeltalige toestand te
"stroomlijnen"?

Kijk alstublieft eens naar deze document over de etnische toestand in
Heerenveen:
http://www.fuen.org/pdfs/DOKU_HEERENVEEN.pdf

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Thanks, Roger. I would like to add that not only Frisian and Dutch are used
in Heerenveen but Lowlands Saxon as well.  Might this proposal constitute an
attempt at "streamlining" an inconveniently multilingual situation?

Please also take a look at this document about the ethnic situation in
Heerenveen:
http://www.fuen.org/pdfs/DOKU_HEERENVEEN.pdf

Groeten/Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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