Abstract
The article assesses the position of Frisian in schools in Friesland through a comparison with the position of Irish in the Republic of Ireland. The backdrop to the discussion is the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages of 1992 and recent thinking about language planning and reversing language shift. I look at the objectives and aims as formulated in Friesland and Ireland for the teaching of Frisian and Irish, respectively, at different levels of the two educational systems. I then consider the nature and scope of the relevant curricula, the routes through the various programmes, and the way in which student progress is monitored. I conclude that great obstacles lie ahead for Frisian and that the structures put in place decades ago to strengthen the position of Frisian in the Dutch educational system need updating urgently.
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