Parents had adequate of Ukrainian students' shoes. They wrote a petition

Parent group from simple School No. 1 in Siedlce demandthat the unit receives less Ukrainian children. As they say, immigrants do not want to assimilate and teach Polish. Moreover, they behave provocatively and insult Poles.

Parents had adequate Ukrainian students. The Council of the parents of the Primary School No. 1 of the Committee on National Education in Siedlce sent a petition to the city authorities, requesting a change in the functioning of recruitments to the facility. presently 65 Ukrainians attend this school, which is 1 seventh of all children. This raises serious educational and social problems in this school.

“Most of these children show no desire to learn Polish, ... which prevents them from functioning effectively in the Polish educational system. Teachers frequently request to pay more attention to them, which is at the expense of our children" – parents wrote. They stressed that it was hard to teach and implement the programme basis.

“We rise our children in a spirit of tolerance and helping everyone who needs help, but it is hard to explain the situations erstwhile in their school another students preach anti-Polish slogans and insult us as Poles” – the parents pointed out. Moreover, Polish children informed about attacks – both verbal and physical – from Ukrainian peers.

The parents' council wants the city authorities to verify whether all schools in the city are equally burdened with "guests" from Ukraine.

The problem was dealt with during the gathering of the Municipal Education Department. The present typical of the parents' council, Aneta Skarus, spoke, explaining the existing problem. – There are classes in our school where half the students are Ukrainian children. They don't want to go to Polish classes. In grades VII and VIII, most of them do not know Polish. He doesn't talk that language, he doesn't write, he doesn't read. Imagine what the lesson is in specified a situation, on which the programme basis must be realised. That's actually impossible. – she said.

She besides pointed out crucial cultural differences between Poles and Ukrainians. – Students from Ukraine do not want to integrate with their classes and participate in trips – She said. She added that the situation was not improving despite the efforts of educators, educators or psychologists, as Ukrainian parents do not appear on interviews.

– The manager cannot refuse to take a kid from the area “The head of the Education Department of the City Hall, Katarzyna Wawryniuk, pointed out. At the same time, she noted that Ukrainians besides attend another schools in the city. Therefore, the substance will not be resolved by parents, and their children are inactive to deal with the simplification of teaching levels and aggressive groups of Ukrainians.

Interestingly, in the explanatory memorandum of the resolution adopted at the meeting, the city president was quoted as being offered to the school chief ‘organisational changes aimed at the uniform allocation of students from Ukraine to individual branches and possible another solutions, including the provision of additional support to any students’. This means that alternatively of relieving Polish students, there will most likely be funds for additional concern for Ukrainians.

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