Schools and kindergartens
Kindergarten in the canton of Zurich is conducted in dialect — the electorate decided that in 2011. At the parents' evening the parents discover they cannot follow their own child's school language.
- Tge ch’i custa
- Parents who cannot follow the parents' evening look like parents who are not interested. That is the same misreading as in care, with different consequences.
- Tge che Heidi fa
- Dialect comprehension for parents — and for newly arrived teachers, who are in the same position and say so less often.
Tge che nus stuessan dumandar
Whether this should come from the school or from the municipality. We suspect the latter and have never checked.
In 2011 Zurich voters passed the initiative «YES to dialect in kindergarten» with about 54 per cent; since August 2012 dialect has been the kindergarten language of instruction. www.zh.ch