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Polish education minister hits back at church criticism of school health education classes
Keep our news free from ads and paywalls by making a donation to support our work! Notes from Poland is run by a small editorial team and is published by an independent, non-profit foundation that is funded through donations from our readers. We cannot do what we do without your support. Poland’s education minister, Barbara Nowacka, has again clashed with the country’s Catholic church over the introduction of a new subject, health education, in …
Barbara Nowacka faces constant criticism for her poor management of the Ministry of Education. Most recently, criticism came from Polish bishops, Archbishop Tadeusz Wojda and Archbishop Marek Jędraszewski. Nowacka said on Polsat News that the criticism of health education shows that the bishops don't know what the core curriculum includes and don't understand the need to provide reliable information. The Minister of Education also called Archbis…
Criticism of health education shows that bishops do not know what is in the core curriculum and do not understand the need to provide reliable knowledge, said the head of the Ministry of National Education, Barbara Nowacka.
He is simply a hater, an ordinary hater in a cassock – said Education Minister Barbara Nowacka about Archbishop Marek Jędraszewski.
Jędraszewski is once again the face of the Church. I think this is very harmful," said Education Minister Barbara Nowacka, commenting on the retired metropolitan's words. The hierarch criticized the current education system, saying it wants to turn young people into what Hitler wanted. "He's a hater in a cassock," Nowacka concluded.
Archbishop Tadeusz Wojda criticized the Ministry of National Education's decision to make health education mandatory starting in the new school year. He noted that the subject contains "very problematic content."
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