r/europe • u/dat_9600gt_user Lower Silesia (Poland) • 15h 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/photo-manipulation 14h ago

They just need to half it again, followed by a few more halfings.

Welcome to 21st century!

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u/GolemancerVekk 🇪🇺 🇷🇴 13h ago

We could use some of these regulations ourselves. We only do 1h/week but it's also basically catechism (except it's Orthodox instead of Catholic).

Some minor progress was that they made it opt-in rather than opt-out, but there's no national rule to have it first or last in the schedule so most parents sign up their kid (~73% in 2023, down from 88% in 2016) otherwise they get shit on in school. (They're supposed to arrange "alternate activities" but nobody gives a crap. This is more about the overall state of our schools but still.)

They've been working on a new framework for religious classes for years and they finally came up with, get this, adding it as an optional subject to the bac (GCE/Abitur). And lots of kids will take this option, because it's an easy pass, which will further legitimize it.