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President wants rethink on history lessons

14th August 2009

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President Lech Kaczynski and MPs from the opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party are calling for changes to the Ministry of Education’s plans to make history lessons shorter.

“Many people are concerned about restricting history classes. The President has often been asked to deal with this issue,” Head of the Presidential Chancellery Wladyslaw Stasiak told Wprost this week.

The reforms being prepared by the Ministry of Education, and to be introduced this September, propose that only history up to 1918 should be taught in junior high schools.

Post-1918 history, says the Ministry, will now be taught in secondary schools.
The proposals have irked some, however, who believe stude ...

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