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  • I think people need to divorce the idea that school education should be expected to be in the exact same variety of language that the students would use with their family and friends. It’s honestly not even a good thing. Unless there’s a grand total of 100 native speakers, nobody uses the same exact variety of language. Tibetans don’t all speak a single variety of a Sino-Tibetan language called Tibetan. They speak various closely related varieties, what most people would called dialects. What’s called Tibetan is Standard Tibetan, which is based on a particular dialect or group of dialects along with various other changes to smooth over any regionalism. And if it’s done right, Standard Tibetan wouldn’t just be the Tibetan spoken in the largest Tibetan city with some token regionalisms thrown in to disguise the copypasta job, but a constructed variety that is equaldistant enough from major Tibetan varieties that no speaker of a Tibetan variety can say, “See, I’m speaking real Tibetan that’s taught in school and used in government, unlike you dumbass losers who are speaking grammatically incorrect Tibetan.” You’re just replacing ethnic majority chauvinism with a regional chauvinism.

    The ideal policy would be students are taught the regional lingua franca and the national lingua franca, especially if the regional lingua franca and national lingua franca are too different from each other. Both the standardized regional lingua franca and standardized national lingua franca ought to be different enough from an actually spoken variety in order to suppress regional chauvinism. But I don’t agree with the idea that education ought to be done in the same exact variety spoken at home or by the local village at all. People are more than capable of learning multiple languages.