Family-friendly organisations: school “Health Education” degrades matrimony and sexuality

pch24.pl 7 months ago

Making wellness education a compulsory subject is the right of parents to rise according to their values – warns the Coalition for the Salvation of the Polish School. The problem is that aggressive sex education instructions will be part of the programming basis of a fresh subject with an innocent sounding name.

Minister of Education Barbara Nowacka convinces that wellness education is simply a subject needed and expected by many environments, including parents.

At the end of October, 2 draft revisions of the regulations on the programme basis prepared by the MEN were submitted to the opinion, including a fresh subject, wellness education, which will replace household education (WEDZ). It is to enter schools on 1 September 2025 and be compulsory for all students. The curriculum describes what the student should know from a given subject after a given educational phase (each subject is described separately).

On Tuesday, representatives of the Coalition for the Salvation of the Polish School presented their assessment of the proposed regulation.

The president of the NATAN Pedagogy Association Zbigniew Barciński compared the existing programme basis of education for household life with the task of the basics of program wellness education. As he said, so far in the Polish school, the teaching framework on sexuality at the EGM is family, while in the EZ it is to be "health". This comes to the message that erstwhile it comes to sexuality, “family does not matter” due to the fact that it is “out of sight”.

– In the concept of MEN sexuality is intended to service pleasure, not love, not marriage, not household (...). Marriage, family, love is all oppression, a blockade that must be rejected— said Zbigniew Barciński. In his opinion, normative patterns and ideals promoted by Raising to household Life and wellness Education are rather different. In the case of WEDZ, as the president of NATAN pointed out, education speaks about relationships and sets as a model a unchangeable household full of respect and love. In the second case, informal unions will be located in the centre and matrimony is just a legal concept. The talker besides pointed out that a permanent relation between a female and a man, certified by a matrimony oath, and only a conscious consent to an EZ, is simply a criterion for assessing sexual activity.

The president of the NATAN Pedagogy Association besides said that "in wellness education, a kid is simply a threat, is an emphasis on contraception, is abortion". In the meantime, he noted that “it is clearly indicated that the kid is simply a value”. The talker called the subject wellness education "a chain anti-family saw" and "an anti-health education", because, as he said, the draft basis does not mention the side effects of contraception and the consequences of different styles of sexual life. He besides stressed that the content of the subject wellness education is contrary to the teaching of the Church.

Marek Puzio of Ordo Iuris said that the introduction of compulsory sexual education within the subject substance of wellness education "in a gross way interferes with parents' precedence to rise children according to their own beliefs, including in the moral and spiritual spheres." In his opinion, this is contrary to the Constitution and the Charter of Fundamental Rights. According to him, the case should be examined by the Constitutional Court.

On Tuesday, Minister of Education Barbara Nowack spoke at a press conference in Warsaw about the statements made at the Coalition for the Salvation of the Polish School. She called it “controversy from the orthodox group, who wants to draw attention to herself and who clearly did not read the document.” – What I heard from this group is far from true. It's just lies and stupidity. – she said.

The Coalition for the Salvation of the Polish School brings together over 70 social organizations: parents, teachers, freedom, local, patriotic, Poles. Among them are the Association of Teachers and Educators for Freedom, the School Protection Movement, the Ordo Iuris Institute, the NATAN Pedagogy Association, the Centre of Life and Family, the parent and Father Foundation, the Fr Peter Complaint Christian Culture Association, the Parents defend Children Association, the “Polonia Christiana” Association, the “Voice for Life”, the Institute of sex and Sexual Analysis “On and On”, the Knights of Columbus, the tiny Feet Foundation, the planet Association of National Army Soldiers, the Social-Combatant Society of Freedom and Independence, the Association of Political Prisoners of the Communist Period.

In early September, the Coalition filed a petition at MEN demanding: leaving the subject of Raising for life in a family, not introducing a fresh subject wellness education including sexual education and respecting the constitutional rule of parental parenthood by leaving voluntary activities in schools that cover the subject of education in the field of sexual life.