Rafał Trzaskowski spoke on wellness education. "It's better this way."

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"Health education is needed, but it should be voluntary," stated president of Warsaw and candidate of KO in the presidential election Rafał Trzaskowski. Earlier on, Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz informed about specified a change in the project, although according to the head of the Ministry of Education Barbara Nowacka, the fresh subject should be mandatory.

The task of a fresh school subject - health education. There is simply a debate on whether it should be compulsory or voluntary. Journalists asked for a position at the Monday conference Rafał Trzaskowski.

- I'm sorry. This is simply a question to the government. I think wellness education is needed, but should be voluntary, here the conviction should be left to parents. I think it would be better for all of us," stated the president of Warsaw and the candidate KO in the presidential election.

Health education in schools. Rattles in the Coalition

Thus, the policy supported a change in the project, which the Deputy Prime Minister and the head of the MON informed on Sunday Władysław Kosiniak-Kamish.

- I'm sorry. I will calm all who protested - the subject will be optionalIt'll be the parents' decision. I think he will be deprived of any ideology - right or left - he informed. As he stressed, there has been a change in this matter.

In his opinion, young people's education on wellness is needed, but "cannot be watered by any ideological sauce". "This is expected to be reliable knowledge, not ideology - neither right-wing nor left-wing - he stressed again.

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He besides said he talked about this subject with Minister for Education Barbara Nowacka, Minister for Home Affairs and Administration Tomasz Siemoniak and the Prime Minister Donald Tuski.

Shortly thereafter, the head of the education department published an entry on the X platform, which shows that it does not rather agree, with what Kosiniak-Kamysz had given. "Someone mistook MON for MEN again erstwhile I read" - she said.

- I'm sorry. I think that wellness education should be compulsory, but we are considering different scenarios - announced Nowacka earlier.

Health education in schools. When?

Subject wellness education is to be introduced into schools since the school year 2025/2026 in place of the object parenting. Initially, unlike HELD, wellness education was to be a compulsory subject. Now the Deputy Prime Minister has assured that this will not happen.

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The MEN task shows that, depending on age, wellness education will concern, among others, what anti-vaccination movements are and how to recognise disinformation about vaccinations, what are contraception methods, what is different from in vitro nanotechnology and what are the risks associated with different aspects of sexuality.