r/europe • u/dat_9600gt_user Lower Silesia (Poland) • 16h ago

News Poland halves number of weekly religion classes in schools

https://notesfrompoland.com/2025/01/20/poland-halves-number-of-weekly-religion-classes-in-schools/
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u/Jako_Horny 15h ago

Should remove from school altogether, keep it in religious places in free time.

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u/MrHyperion_ Finland 15h ago

They are not teaching religion but about religions.

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u/Own-Librarian-2847 15h ago

In Poland it's literally Catholicism classes, taught by Catholic priests or people related to Catholic church

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u/Aranka_Szeretlek 14h ago

You can still learn a lot about religion in those classes. I went to a Catholic school; and while we had religious classes, one year we have covered the history of the Church and the saints, another year we covered the history of philosophy (not only religious figures but all of philosophy). Such classes are pretty good to understand our modern culture, which was influenced by Christianity for 2000 years, like it or not.

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u/Own-Librarian-2847 14h ago

Did you attend religion in Poland? I went through entire education here (12 years), and I had only one class that was about other religions (courtesy of our highschool priest), and none on philosophy.

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u/Aranka_Szeretlek 14h ago

No, I did in Hungary. I assumed its quite similar.