There has also been a proposal for a compulsory class on race and gender.

ECONOMIST: Race and education

Zurich, the most populous of the cantons, and the heart of the Swiss banking world, plans to start compulsory English at an early age, maybe even from the first class, the six-plus lot.

ECONOMIST: Do you speak English? Jaa, es bitzli

This explains the meteoric rise of a new party (Yesh Atid) which said it would focus on the middle class and find a way so the ultra-Orthodox participate in burden-sharing by joining either the compulsory army or civilian form of mandatory service.

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