{"id":257436,"date":"2018-01-08T19:31:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T00:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=257436"},"modified":"2021-04-15T19:26:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T23:26:25","slug":"iran-bans-english-from-being-taught-in-primary-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/iran-bans-english-from-being-taught-in-primary-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran bans English from being taught in primary schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Wonderful! They should replace it with Chinese!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Iran has banned teaching the English language in primary schools, calling the subject a &#8220;cultural invasion&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The education ministry &#8220;envisages strengthening Persian language skills and Iranian Islamic culture of pupils at the primary school stage&#8221;, its secretary told state media.<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has previously expressed concern about the teaching of English.<\/p>\n<p>It is seen as an important skill by many Iranians and is widely studied.<\/p>\n<p>English is a foreign language option for many at secondary level, which begins at the age of 12, but its popularity has led to classes being offered by some schools much earlier.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Teaching of foreign languages has not been recommended by any means&#8221; at primary level, Mehdi Navid-Adham, secretary of the Supreme Education Council, told the state-run IRIB news agency.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that primary schools which teach English as an extra class outside of school hours were committing a &#8220;violation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The ban does not affect foreign-language tuition at secondary school or popular private institutes which teach English outside the educational system.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-42610755\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-42610755<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Wonderful! They should replace it with Chinese! &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":327477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}