Would intervene in fundamental rights: Aargau government is against obligatory German on the playgrounds

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However, the schools are free to make recommendations for the desired language on the school grounds, the government council writes in its statement on an SVP motion and an FDP interpellation published on Friday. Legally, recommendations are permissible and unproblematic.

Students who do not follow a recommendation should not be penalized. One can recognize a public interest in regulating the use of language in the playground.

School makes a positive balance

The Reinach-Leimbach school in rural Wynental decided last autumn that only High German or Swiss German may be spoken on the entire school grounds. The school draws up a positive balance.

According to the government council, an obligation to use the German language would essentially be contrary to constitutionally guaranteed fundamental rights, in particular freedom of expression. A cantonal regulation is therefore “inadmissible” and also “inopportune”. Learning the German language would entail coercion and punishment.

Speak German as often as possible

However, it is clear that acquiring sufficient oral and written knowledge of German is an indispensable basis for successful integration into society and the world of work, the government council continued. It is to be welcomed if the pupils in the break rooms speak the German language among themselves as often as possible.

Every effort is made to ensure that the primary school can offer a high level of integration given the growing heterogeneity. The promotion of foreign language students is an important basis for integration and increasing equal opportunities. It is part of the basic assignment of primary school. (SDA)

Source:Blick