“We will return to what is currently being processed as a civic legislative initiative: a program of mandatory ethics classes or, instead of ethics, religious education.” This change to the education system was announced in Lubartów by Przemysław Czarnek, Law and Justice’s (PiS) candidate for Prime Minister.
Przemysław Czarnek, a PiS MP and former Minister of Education, met with residents of Lubartów as part of a nationwide tour, already appearing in the role of Law and Justice’s candidate for Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland. During the meeting, he outlined what changes, in his view, must occur in the Polish education system.
“Religious education will not be mandatory, because it cannot be. But ethics must be mandatory, because young people must have access to knowledge about value systems, about how to distinguish truth from falsehood, good from evil. They must learn how one lives in this society, according to which rules and which values,”
he said.
“It will be possible to be exempt from ethics classes if one attends religious education. There cannot be a void. It cannot be the case that more than eighty percent of young people in large cities have neither ethics nor religion classes. And if they also lack support from parents and grandparents who would pass these things on, and if they lack support in faith, then a void remains, one that can easily be filled with foolishness, manipulation, and internal enslavement,”
Przemysław Czarnek explained.
“We are returning to normality in Polish schools,” the PiS politician concluded.