Work / English teachers in Poland - why are they so unhappy? [89]

Indeed, and it's a dreadful state of affairs. A check should be absolutely mandatory - I would be pretty angry if my child was being taught by someone that didn't even have a criminal records check. I wish I could say more...

Wasn't there a case a few years back (Harry will remember better than me, probably) with some British horse riding instructor in Kraków?

Work / English teachers in Poland - why are they so unhappy? [89]


Any credible school (i.e. the vast majority of schools that aren't MEN-approved) don't do checks. It's a matter of time before something bad happens - and for what it's worth, I don't think anyone should be working with children without detailed background checks.

Good (non-MEN approved) employers will demand criminal checks, but they are few and far between.


It gets worse, IS. I've heard of cases of people being given jobs with nothing more than a quick interview, and then being allowed to teach kids.

I could tell you about some very strange CV's that I've received in the past - including people with gaps in their life (one guy seemingly had just vanished for 3 years) story with no real explanation.

I don't want UK-levels of paranoia here, but it would be nice if a criminal check was required for every job that involves contact with kids alone.

Language / Information on Polish textbook Hurra Po Polsku [33]


It's a very difficult one to translate, because you also get (for example) świetlica socjoterapeutyczna which also doesn't translate too well. I suppose "recreation room" could work, but that doesn't really explain what it is. "Common room" is another possibility - but not really.


Form teacher in England, but class tutor in Scotland (and the two are not the same thing - ours just check attendance in the morning, with pastoral duties being handled by specialist teachers). I think wychowawca and form teacher are more or less identical, though.


No, I'm not, but thank you for the heads up - I'll try and find a copy here in the university library.

Language / Information on Polish textbook Hurra Po Polsku [33]


I found that working in a mostly Polish-only environment did the trick nicely.

Polonius, do you find yourself using Polish words when there are no easy English equals? For instance, I use świetlica.

News / Should Poland exit the EU immediately? [377]


Why?

Poland and Spain have no issues with each other, for instance. Neither does Poland and Estonia, or Poland and Slovenia. The Union still works fine.

News / Should Poland exit the EU immediately? [377]


The thing is that it seems to be a pattern for wildly successful CDU chancellors to make such stupid mistakes. Adenauer, Kohl and now Merkel all made that single, career-defining mistake that they became known for. But it seems that she didn't consult almost anyone before announcing that Germany was open - the CSU are furious with her, the Lander are furious and plenty of other EU countries are also furious. I don't think it's a coincidence that she's gone very, very quiet recently.


They are, but I think it's also worth remembering that Poland is growing in confidence to reject such things. It doesn't seem likely that Poland will take any Muslims at all, and I don't see any evidence that the EU is able to convince Poland to do so.

My gut feeling is that Germany (to try and save face) will end up paying Poland and the others to take the refugees.

News / Should Poland exit the EU immediately? [377]


Wow. Someone hit the bottle early.

Not enough Poles in the UK if you ask me.

News / Should Poland exit the EU immediately? [377]


Border controls are an EU matter these days - the only thing that Poland has discretion over is the entry criteria for non-EU citizens, and even then, they have to respect visas issued by other EU countries. Schengen was originally outside of the EU, but it's part of the acquis these days.

The economic benefits do outweigh everything else. It would be a different story if Poland was a rich country and the target of such migrants, but because they don't care about Poland, neither does Poland care about them.

News / Should Poland exit the EU immediately? [377]

And the truth will always be somewhere in the middle :)

Polonia / POLES vs BULGARIANS [160]


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Funded by Russia.

News / Should Poland exit the EU immediately? [377]

One would rather argue the opposite.

Classifieds / Random Classifieds Ads Poland [261]

Not really, he's an Italian, not Polish lawyer.

News / Should Poland exit the EU immediately? [377]

I think he's suggesting that they'll get beaten up for merely being in Poland, which you and I know is clearly bollocks.

News / Should Poland exit the EU immediately? [377]

Except there's already plenty of such people here and they don't get beaten up.

News / Should Poland exit the EU immediately? [377]

No, they won't be beaten.

They might / probably will go West within minutes, though.

News / Should Poland exit the EU immediately? [377]


You can and will do what they say, because it's a matter for qualified majority voting. If the vote passes, you have two choices - accept or leave the EU. And you'll accept.

News / Should Poland exit the EU immediately? [377]


Given that Poland wasn't doing it before 2004, it's hard to imagine how else it could be.


Fortunately, it won't.

News / Poland's PiS party members and crime [346]

Not sure what PO have to do with yet another PiS member and member of Lech Kaczynski's inner circle being discovered to be a fraudster...

News / Should Poland exit the EU immediately? [377]


I suppose you genuinely hate the new roads, new infrastructure and everything else, too?


Then give everything back. It's fair enough - Poland can stay like Belarus in return.


Sure, you can go back to the laughable road network of 2003, and the laughable train network that consisted of nothing but train stations filled with tramps urinating all over the walls.


So why don't you go back? :/


I really wonder what value the EU gets from spending a vast amount of money on Poznan's water supply.

News / Poland's PiS party members and crime [346]


Indeed, and I notice that the usual suspects are absolutely silent on this. Just shows that they support Poland being robbed, just not by "the other guys".

Ironside? Polonius? Wulkan? Grzegorz? Come on, surely one of you PiS lovers has something to say about yet another person connected to the twins being caught.

News / Poland's PiS party members and crime [346]

Another day, another scandal involving PiS and fraudulent expenses.


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Corrupt to the bone.

Interestingly, this is yet another person that was very well connected to the Kaczyński twins. She worked in Lech Kaczyński's Presidential office. So now - we have Duda, Gosiewska and Hofman - all three were very close to the twins, and all three have been involved in fraudulent expense claims. The stench of corruption around PiS grows ever stronger.

News / Should Poland exit the EU immediately? [377]


Schengen is anything but dead. Polish borders with Germany, Lithuania, Slovakia and the Czech Republic are completely open without anything other than the usual random controls. Even Austria isn't controlling every border, but only the main transit routes.

More to the point, even the temporarily suspended Schengen borders are conducting mostly visual checks rather than document checks.

Genealogy / Do I look Polish? (my picture) [375]


Not at all. You need bigger muscles, less hair and whiter skin.

News / Should Poland exit the EU immediately? [377]


In theory.


But that is entirely the strength of the EU. If Russia came into Poland, Germany would react simply because the Polish market is too important to be allowed to fall under Russian influence.


It has worked very well - have you been to Russia recently? They are struggling with the sanctions and Saudi/American games with the price of oil. What hasn't worked is getting rid of Putin, but Russia is definitely feeling the pain. If they weren't, they would've annexed Donetsk by now.


I think it's worth remembering that Poland also has significant influence over many EU countries.

News / Should Poland exit the EU immediately? [377]


What are you on about? If they were mentally unstable, Poland would be in a far worse situation than now.


The biggest threat to Poland is the Polish people.


She screwed up. It's getting fixed, and Poland did protest loudly.


Hungarians are another lot that would be screwed without the EU. Likewise, the Greeks.

News / Should Poland exit the EU immediately? [377]

Putin has so much to gain from Poland leaving the EU that it's not even funny.

Rational observers know that the only protection Poland has is from the EU, even if it's not perfect.

News / Should Poland exit the EU immediately? [377]


Why?

They would no longer be EU citizens and no longer able to benefit from freedom of movement rules. The UK would never agree to give work permits to dish washers and so on - so they would be gone naturally.


Wouldn't make a huge difference if the UK left, because the UK would be almost obliged to contribute to a Norway-style agreement in order to keep favourable access to EU markets. More to the point, if the UK even thought about leaving, the EU would most likely slap on a tax on financial services to offshore destinations - in other words, the City would be in huge trouble.

News / Should Poland exit the EU immediately? [377]

Wishful thinking, Ironside. They'd probably go straight to the Urzad Pracy as no-one would employ them.

News / Should Poland exit the EU immediately? [377]

Plenty of chance, especially as the EU wouldn't be able to influence the UK anymore on the matter.

News / Should Poland exit the EU immediately? [377]

Time to go home, then.

Good luck paying increased taxes to cover the huge cost of resettling 2 million+ unemployed Poles.

Poland leaving the EU would be an economic disaster for Poland, and she knows it. Even Samobroona (who were originally completely against the EU) suddenly changed their mind when the cash came rolling in.