Tibetan sources who spoke to Radio Free Asia linked the closures to the Chinese government’s education policies and its promotion of the Ethnic Unity and Progress Law, which took effect on July 1, 2026. They said the shutdowns could further limit opportunities for Tibetan children to learn their mother tongue and cultural traditions.
Wow, a whole 3 schools in a region of almost 4 million people?
Comparing with a similar sized state in my country:
Closing 3 is almost a cultural genocide omg
Seems slightly disingenuous to use stats from your country and pretend that it means anything here.
If anyone has these stats about China and Tibet, I’d be really interested in seeing them. Otherwise it’s pointless.
Official chinese figures report it at 2200 schools of all levels. I didn’t post that because the first reply would be "well you can’t trust the official figures, the chinese government is clearly lying!“
And really, comparing similarly sized places around the world is not valid? You really need to visit China, it is as good or better than any other place I’ve been. We know their literacy rate is good, school math and science levels are among the highest, etc. Why wouldn’t it be comparable to other places?
Well I’m in the US, and we have a sordid history of forcing natives into certain types of schools.
So I’d just be curious to hear about how many Tibetan language schools have been closed specifically, and where all of those people now need to go to learn (that now specifically doesn’t include their culture at all).
Trying to evade the main point over here that:
China (country A) is closing schools in Tibet (country B) after a Military annexation.
You know that annexation happened almost 70 years ago right?
You think the numbers of schools in a region that had 97% illiteracy rate and is now 28% remained the same all this time, and they are now, 70 years later, closing down 3 to oppress them? (Out of 2200 btw)
Indigenous lands in north america were taken hundreds of years ago
Literacy rates improved vastly for indigenous people in the Americas. Does that make that colonialism acceptable to you?
Ok, tankie.
And how many were closed in order to erase their cultural education?
List them if you will. Preferably alphabetical if you don’t mind.
EDIT: yeah. I thought so.