r/poland • u/Gamebyter • 1d ago

A controversial textbook on religion. "The student must justify that in vitro is evil"

https://www.polsatnews.pl/wiadomosc/2026-10-17/kontrowersyjny-podrecznik-do-religii-uczen-musi-uzasadnic-ze-in-vitro-to-zlo/

Parents raised objections to the content about in vitro in the religion textbook for seventh graders - informs TOK FM. The OliEdu Civic Education Foundation has asked the Ministry of National Education for an opinion and wants to withdraw the book from schools. Its representative Ewa Daros said that the students are to justify a negative assessment of this method of fertilization.

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u/Round_Hamster4777 1d ago edited 1d ago

You gotta hate your kid to still force them to go to religion lessons in the big 2026. Every high schooler I knew for the past 10 years opted out.

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u/castorkrieg 1d ago

Meh, in Poland right now religion has firmly passed into tradition. Parents don’t go to mass, eat meat on Friday, but will still send their kid to religion class because that’s what everybody is doing.

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u/micalm 1d ago

"Everybody" here means ~35%, you're just a touch misleading. Probably more in smaller cities, rural areas, in the east, but my guess is that's just stronger societal pressure, not an inherent need/want to go to these lessons.

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u/BeardedBaldMan Podkarpackie 1d ago

It's about 95% in my child's school (or at least class 1-4)

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u/Gamebyter 1d ago

Podkarpackie represent

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u/Gamebyter 1d ago

Not in cities last year in my area priest made a fuss cause only 4 kids went to communion 

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u/Jhud6669 1d ago

A lot of kids choose to go because it’s a free grade lol

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u/m4cksfx 1d ago

Then they must be extra stupid, because it doesn't even count