Polish school is at risk! – KROPS appeal to opposition organization leaders

czir.org 1 month ago

The Coalition for the Salvation of the Polish School (KROPS), an association of 94 social organizations, appealed to opposition organization leaders for a clear position on the future of Polish education and presented 8 postulates to halt ideological changes in the Polish school.

The recipients of the letter are politicians: Jan Krzysztof Ardanowski, Krzysztof Bosak, Grzegorz Braun, Marek Jakubiak, Jarosław Kaczyński, Sławomir Mentzen and Janusz Korwin-Mikke.

The following text:

Ladies and gentlemen,

The Coalition for the Salvation of the Polish School (KROPS), which presently consists of 94 social organizations, addresses opposition political parties with key expectations in the field of education.

We see the real hazard of conducting a deep, harmful transformation of education in Poland in order to usage the school to form the alleged inclusive society according to ideological request and failure of educational sovereignty by including the Polish school in the European Education Area.

We propose that you make a commitment to the social side that will advance the coming electoral year.

The demands of the Coalition for the Salvation of the Polish School are as follows:

conduct a realistic, long-term (non-term) education policy and make a sovereign education programme under the Act entitled “Constitution of Poland”, respecting the rule of subsidiarity;
restoring a advanced level of teaching at school, which means stopping the ideological programme improvement alleged Reforms26. the Compass of next day and the consistent withdrawal from the inclusive education programme, in peculiar from: universal design, functional evaluation that violates constitutional principles of privacy and household life, and the education of teachers and educators towards inclusion;
the restoration of a model of education and education, which emphasizes respect for truth, the improvement of the intellectual skills needed in its search for it, the request for an effort to get sound and deeper knowledge, the building of the authority of a teacher and the respect of his autonomy in the selection of educational and educational methods; specified a position means restoring the anticipation of making compulsory homework and moving distant from promoting climate ideology in education and sex questioning biological, binary sex bases, as well as over-emphasis on student rights and alleged well-being;
the restoration of household education based on the value of marriage, family, motherhood, parenthood (Article 18 of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland); specified a position means the end of wellness education in the current form and the restoration of wellness education in 10 subjects; until the end of wellness education, this subject should stay voluntary – students and parents must not be forced to agree on anti-family and sex content; pupils should be protected by law against depravity;
the statutory safeguarding of the constitutional right of parents to rise and teach moral and spiritual children according to their beliefs (Article 53(3) of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland) on the basis of various acts of law, including statutory guaranteeing: compulsory lessons of religion or ethics (to choose), the right of parents to choose for their kid the way of home education and to receive appropriate support, the freedom of all man to self-determine on the question of medical choices;
to reconstruct throughout the program the education of patriotic education, based on the canon of reading and national heritage, strengthening the sense of national identity and pride of being a Pole, in accordance with a constitutional commitment "to convey to future generations all that is valuable from more than a 1000 years of achievements"; to attach this programme foundation in statutory form as the "Constitution of Poland"; specified a position means the abolition of civic education in the current form and withdrawal from the task of the European Area of Education;
ensuring the inclusion of migrant children in the right course of learning, while at the same time requiring them to accomplish an adequate level of cognition of Polish in compulsory classes in the compensatory departments, completed by an examination;
Restoring the sovereignty of Polish education by carrying out successive revisions and selections (in school education, higher education and non-governmental sector) presently implemented and proposed in the future of transnational and global programmes, together with funds transferred to them (including programmes: EC, UNESCO, OECD, WHO guidelines) – in terms of their impact on the objectives and level of education, in view of the interest of the Polish State.

We ask you to respond in writing to the above provisions, hoping to accept them. specified a position would be a clear signal to the public that education issues occupy an crucial place in your group's programme.

We hope that, at the invitation of political parties, the KROPS experts will be able to co-create and give opinions on government implementing these expectations as shortly as possible.

At the same time, we will inform the KROPS Signers and the public on the portal rescueszkolo.pl and in the media.

Yours sincerely.
Coordinators and Council of Coalition for the Salvation of the Polish School:

Hanna Dobrowolska, School Protection Movement

Agnieszka Pawlik-Regulska, Association of Teachers and Educators “Teachers for Freedom”

mec. Marek Puzio, Ordo Iuris Legal Culture Institute Foundation

Elizabeth Lachman, Polish Parents Forum

Dr Zbigniew Barciński, NATAN Pedagogy Association

Antoni Buchała, Catholic Society of Educators

Adam ChmielewskiResponsible Gdańsk

Mirosława Chmielewicz, Central Social Deacon of the Light-Life Movement

Magdalena Czarnik"Parents defend Children" Association

Jolanta Dobrzyńska, School Protection Movement