he became known as a sports journalist who in 2016 became a host for “Teleexpress”. , and in January it was reported that TVP had not extended its contract.
Shortly later, Patyra, like his colleagues from TVP, was sent to . The former TVP employee never hid his political views and was an opponent of the current (October 15 Coalition) government. . Recently, the Ministry of Education and Science got into trouble.
Rafał Patyra thunders in “Express Republika”
Rafał Patyra is more fulfilled in “Express Republika” than in “Teleexpress”. Finally, without exposing himself to criticism and accusations of bias, he can criticize the government even more harshly than he allowed himself on TVP. On the occasion of the changes in school curricula announced by the Ministry of National Education, Patyra bluntly commented on the reduction of the history curriculum. Although the ministry has not yet provided any specifics, and all information about what children will soon no longer learn comes from unofficial leaks, Patyra started his program this way:
A nation that loses its memory ceases to be a nation. It becomes merely a collection of people temporarily occupying a given territory. Why do we recall the words of Marshal Piłsudski? Because they help us understand the real goal of the Ministry of National Education, which wants to eliminate such trivial episodes as the Baptism of Poland or the Battle of Grunwald from history textbooks. “Express Republika” will not buy this new science and will remind us of national heroes – and traitors too.
– he said in the introduction of Patyr’s program.
The Ministry of National Education is indeed working intensively to slim down the oversized teaching programs. Changes will not be spared from history. For now, the so-called pre-consultations with experts, and preliminary proposals for changes have been posted on the Internet in recent hours. They were published by the website. Indeed, a significant number of very specific names and events that were previously included in compulsory and optional teaching content have been deleted. Mostly, this involves throwing out what was in brackets in the program as a clarification of the basic point (e.g. “The student is able to name the colors (red, white, blue)” – in the proposed change, specific colors would be deleted, but the ability to name the colors remains). The plans published by nielezna.pl show that, for example, Prior Augustyn Kordecki and Hetman Stefan Czarniecki are disappearing, but the general heroes of the 17th century wars and King Jan III Sobieski remain in the same subsection. In the subsection about Jagielle, before the changes, the student would have to have knowledge about, for example:
- Queen Jadwiga
- King Władysław Jagiello
- Zawisza Czarny
- Polish-Lithuanian union
- Grunwald victory
After the changes, the calculation would look like this:
- Queen Jadwiga
- King Władysław Jagiełło
- Polish-Lithuanian union
Naturally, Law and Justice has already criticized these changes – the party placed great emphasis on teaching history during its rule, expanding its programs to include another historical subject: History and the Present (HiT). The new Minister of Education, Barbara Nowacka, has already announced that HiT will disappear from the programs.
Source: Gazeta
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