Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies.

No.

No, darling, it is too many serious problems for such a simple country boy like me. I allow you to choose one and you need to decide now. Which one do you suspect me of? :):):)


Stop deflecting. My time is too precious to waste it on your silly images. Say openly what or who you mean.

Yes it is.

And as usual you demonstrate being the typical wokester who winces when confronted with reality. You are unable to survive your own purity spiral and you know it. Hence your off-topic diversions instead.

Nevertheless, this is a golden opportunity for you to set an example and apologize publicly for your own collective responsibility in the misery and subjugation of other minority groups. Not only for you being an out and proud homosexual agitator but also as an Arab-speaker as well and that community's long, sordid and shameful history in the slave trade which continues to this very day.

Your reluctance to apologize will be fully expected but I still hope you can find the courage to do so.

And of course irrelevant here in Poland.


Indeed. Meanwhile, there are actual real issues here.

Funny that such purity survival problem primarily affects you. I mean your racial purity.

We have been waiting for over an hour. Shall we get the requested info who or what you were talking about or not???? :):):):)


Is duly expected but I still hope you can find the courage to do so. hahahaha

4 hours have passed. My dear interlocutor decided to withdraw from the discussion (which he had initiated) to avoid saying clearly what or who he had meant. It is so unbelievably funny. :):):)

Jon, it seems the other poster took your advice to heart and decided to quit our humorous company and take care of more important issues. Amazing your words seem so simple but they have such a powerful impact. :):)

They flee at the slightest sign of adversity.

It just shows how far they are from Poland, where people don't do that.

Talking about schools, a friend who has school age kids told me yesterday that her kids' school has gone online again, due to the virus. Not great news, especially since she and her husband both work full time.

Entire school? I thought it is done selectively, for classes where the infection appeared.

She didn't say, however it sounds like more than one class since the kids are different ages.

Two controvercies concerning high school prom balls surfaced recently

During one ball the DJ played a song whose chorus is J******. PiS which means Fekk PiS! One student shared the film in the media and the head teacher is going to punish him for that. Interviewed students claim nothing serious happened and they can sing and do what they want at their own ball. Let me add that the ball is organised by students and their parents and the staff are only invited as guests.

Could have been worse.... can you imagine the devastation if he'd played 'Prez twe oczy zielone'?

The second is if 19 year old students may drink alcohol during the ball. If it takes place in the school, they mustn`t. But if in a non-school facility in town, they can coz they are adults. However, teachers are of different opinion and students feel wronged coz it is their own ball where the staff are invited guests so why don`t they mind their own business???

The latest data: so far, 24.000 Ukrainian refugee kids have been accepted into Polish kindergartens and schools, mostly primary. There are about 600.000 of them altogether. A huge challenge for the Polish education system, already strained by previous failed reforms........

Some of my high school students work as volunteers who assist in fundraising or even work in charity sectors which directly handle refugees.

Poland is turning out to be the real "stand up" country by helping their fellow neighbors. They will be close friends forever now. This is the kind of spirit that Putin cannot break and he never expected it either:)

Its just a matter of time for the end of Putin.

Edit... Not to diminish all the countries that are helping also.

Right now I am preparing a vocabulary test for one of tomorrow`s classes. The task is simple - translate 10 Polish words into English and vice versa. There is also a Ukrainian version for one female student. I have a deal with her - she agreed to take part in all testing activities though Ukrainian students aren`t required to. She is really ambitious and hard working. Good. I wish all my students were like that. :):)

The only thing which worries me in her English is her pronunciation. She speaks with a heavy accent which sometimes affects communication. I wonder why.

People from russia (and perhaps Ukraine too) have more challenges with English pron than Native speakers of Polish. As do Italians and a few others.

I had no idea about it. Interesting. Why so?

Quite true. I''ve followed some Russians online who write English at native level but when I found spoken interviews... yikes! I can barely understand what they're saying..

A person's first language shapes their speech apparatus in ways that make some other languages essentially impossible to pronounce really well.

That said, I've had several Russian speaking students who do manage reasonably well.

(Polish speakers are not disadvantaged in English but are horribly disadvantaged in languages in which vowel length is important (Japanese and some other Asian languages especially) they seem really uncapable of producing short and long vowel sounds).

When writing, we usually tend to think about what we're saying before committing finger to keypad. While there's always GoogleTranslate to fall back on, when we speak, typically we have to react spontaneously to the interlocutor, something made all the harder through native language interference. Most of us revert to our mother tongue when either stressed or eager to express ourselves as we would in our first language!

Solidarity with Ukraine displays in Polish schools. Both teachers and students are doing a great job.

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There are thousands of them in most schools.

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A few days ago in one English class we were reading a review of a book set in a dystopian world. My students had no idea what it meant so while they were reading the text, I started looking for pics to show on the interactive board. However, most of what I found on the laptop reminded me of some destroyed cities in Ukraine and I gave up - I didn`t want to evoke any nasty associations in Ukrainian students.

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Amazzzing! Now that I have more time I started going nostalgic about the past. I am recalling my academic teachers. One of them was professor Marta Gibińska, an outstanding expert on Shakespeare. I attended her classes on British literature of 16/17th century in the second year. She made us read the plays and then enlightened us about all hidden symbols and meanings we missed. Then we had to sit short exams on each play we did in class.

I still remember the comment she wrote on one of my tragic exam sheets - I think it was Macbeth - Your English is alarmingly bad. Nothing has changed since then. :):):):)

I am so happy she is still with us. Best regards, Mrs Gibińska.

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That's silly just play the beginning of bladerunner 1 or 2

English, of course. :)


I don`t play s-fi action games, I only watch them. :) Playing is silly, but whatever you like.....

It's probably the best dystopian sci-fi FILM ever made.. and no ruined cities, the english word for that would be more apocalyptic rather than dystopian. By play i mean press play on the video, common english parlance.

Aaargh. A funny misunderstanding but you should know there are dozens of PC and console games based on Bladerunner motifs. I know them all but never played any.

The trend of leaving the job by teachers all over Poland hasn`t been stopped by the PiS government. It is increasing and there is no hope it can be reversed.

Well, there is hope in the new government after the elections. But the losses will have become irreparable by then. We are losing the best teachers who have had enough.

Thank you, PiS!
PS. Why do Polish rightists have to fekk up almost everything they touch? In every sphere???

The first post in this thread mentioned PIS` botched "reform" of education a few years ago.


We are still suffering negative consequences of that crazy decision. Two age groups, instead of one, are taking part in this year's recruitment to secondary schools. In many schools there are more candidates than places. Head teachers are alerting that they will not be able to accept all applicants.

Dejavu coz a similar situation already took place in 2019 when this thread was started.

How is it possible that two age groups are competing for places in schools again??

This is the result of the "reform" of 2014, when seven-year-olds born in 2007 and six-year-olds from the first half of 2008 went to school. Now, these two-age-groups teens choose high school at the same time. That is why there are several people willing to win one place in high schools and technical schools, especially the best ones. Many schools expand or even create new class units, but the head teachers emphasize that there will simply be no room for some candidates.

PIS, of course, is blaming everybody else for this scandal except themselves.

Thank you, PiS gangsters, for your incompetence.