“Who else wouldn’t want to be upset by those who remove, for example, Katyn, Maksymilian Kolbe, the Greater Poland Uprising, or even Grunwald from the core curriculum? Who is the Polish school intended for? asked former Prime Minister Beata Szydło on the X platform.
The Volhynian Massacre in textbooks. Nowacka tries to put out the fire
Let us recall that a few days ago reports appeared that the approach to the issue of Volhynian crime would be changed at the new base. The excerpt directly stating that the actions of Ukrainian nationalists were genocide would be removed!
In the chapter ‘Poland under German and Soviet occupation’ the student should still explain ‘the causes of the Polish-Ukrainian conflict in Volhynia and eastern Lesser Poland’ – but (compared to the 2022 core curriculum) the clarification: ‘including the genocide of the Polish people” would disappear.
– described by Onet.
The head of the Ministry of National Education, Barbara Nowacka (KO), tried to extinguish the fire.
The essence of preliminary consultation is that experts propose something and that everyone can assess the proposals and express their substantive opinion. Which I encourage. I will not sign a document that will not call the massacre in Volhynia by its name: genocide
– the minister wrote then.
“An expert from the Ministry of National Education spoke
Now Wirtualna Polska conducted an interview with Aleksander Pawlicki, lecturer at the postgraduate School of Education of the Polish-American Freedom Foundation and the University of Warsaw. He was one of five “experts” who suggested changes to the history curriculum!
When asked about the Volhynia massacre, Aleksander Pawlicki pointed out, among other things, the following: about… the experience of a teacher who teaches children from Ukraine in his classroom.
We must take into account that today in many schools teachers teach in mixed Polish-Ukrainian classes. Two historical memories with different great-grandparents sit next to each other on the benches. Moreover, these memories cover not only the 1940s, but also the Second Polish Republic. And these memories are often contradictory. (…) But my perspective is the perspective of someone who sits in class with children and has to ask himself the question: what will I gain if every Ukrainian child in Poland remembers that his great-grandparents may have been complicit in the massacre in Volhynia? This is a pedagogical question, because there can be both Tomek and Dmytro in one class. And it is not easy when the teacher has to dictate the topic: ‘genocidal massacre in Volhynia’. This is not a good idea for building community in the classroom
– said the “expert” from the Ministry of National Education.
Szydło: “Who is the Polish school for?”
And former Prime Minister Beata Szydło referred to these words on the X platform.
Recently, even Minister @barbaraanowacka couldn’t stand it and criticized the change in the core curriculum, which relied on removing information about the Volhynian Massacre from Polish schools. Meanwhile, one of the authors of the changes, a certain Aleksander Pawlicki, has freely stated in the media that such a change is intended to… avoid embarrassing Ukrainian children studying in Polish schools.
– said the PiS member.
Who else wouldn’t want to be upset by those who remove, for example, Katyn, Maksymilian Kolbe, the Greater Poland Uprising, or even Grunwald from the core curriculum? Who is the Polish school intended for?
– Beata Szydło asked.
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Source: wPolityce