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It's not enforced by my schools, but when I was little, speaking local languages at school is forbidden. It's getting better now, but at that time, only the official language was allowed.
banning local languages was also done by my local government around 50ish years ago. in every school. take a wild guess at where I'm from?
(no, I'm not dutch despite being on feddit.nl)
Canada, I'm guessing? We did all sorts of horrible things like that even til the 1990s to the First Nations peoples.
Taiwan actually. They banned anything other than Mandarin.
This was done in Hawaii
Are you Spanish? In Spain local languages were forbidden during Franco dictatorship.