Little Soldiers Grow Up: Poland Militarizes Classrooms

Giuseppe Gagliano It’s a morning like any other in a middle school in Warsaw. The students line up, silent, orderly, with backpacks on their shoulders and tense faces. But today there are no questions, no tests. Today a sergeant enters the classroom, not a teacher. Welcome to the new Polish program “Educating with the Army,” or, for those who speak Polish, Edukacja z wojskiem. A name that sounds a lot like “civic education,” but when you look at…