Such instructions forbidding ball games – and, sometimes, rollerskating too – are not even enforceable by law: they are simply there to discourage and to prod, yet their continued presence suggests a long history of uncomfortable relations between children and adults on British estates.
The first government action against native languages came in 1953, when the use of Taiwanese or Japanese for instruction was forbidden.
This is interpreted as requiring public schools to respect the freedom of religion and conscience of their students, and as forbidding instruction in a particular religion or belief system unless non-discriminatory exemptions and alternatives are available.
In 1917 many states passed laws requiring public schools to promote patriotism by forbidding any instruction, like teaching the German language, that might be regarded as disloyal.
We have arrived on the anniversary of the death of Kemal Ataturk in 1938, the man who in 1923 carved the Turkish republic out of the Islamic Ottoman empire, abandoning Arabic, initially even in the call to prayer, forcing the Muslim brotherhoods underground, forbidding religious instruction in the schools.
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the most senior Shia cleric in Iraq, sends instructions to his followers forbidding any attacks on Sunni mosques and calls for seven days of mourning.
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the most senior Shia cleric in Iraq, sent instructions to his followers forbidding attacks on Sunni mosques, especially the major ones in Baghdad, and called for seven days of mourning.
Born in the province of Diyarbakir in southeast Turkey in 1961, she dropped out of elementary school because she could not understand the language of instruction — Turkish — and was forbidden to speak her own.
