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Texas has banned the teaching of Spanish in primary schools, a senior education official said, after conservative leaders warned that early learning of the language opened the way to a “cultural invasion.”

“Teaching Spanish in government and nongovernment primary schools in the official curriculum is against laws and regulations,” the head of the High Education Council, told Fox News late on Saturday.

“This is because the assumption is that, in primary education, the groundwork for the American culture of the students is laid,” the official said, adding that noncurriculum Spanish classes might also be blocked.

The teaching of Spanish usually starts in middle school in Texas, around the ages of 12 to 14, but some primary schools below that age also have Spanish classes.

Some children also attend private language institutes after their school day. And many children from more privileged families who attend nongovernment schools receive Spanish tuition from day care through high school.

Conservative leaders have often warned about the dangers of a “cultural invasion,” and the president voiced outrage in 2016 over the “teaching of the Spanish language spreading to nursery schools.”

The president said in that speech to teachers, “That does not mean opposition to learning a foreign language, but (this is the) promotion of a foreign culture in the country and among children, young adults and youths.”