School in pieces. Will junior high school come back?
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Will rural primary school turn into centers with nurseries and day care homes for seniors? Will the inhabitants of the village allow their 10-year-olds to larger towns? Discussions are underway in the government, and local governments take out loans and are eagerly waiting for the promised elasticity of the school network. – I want the changes to be accompanied by the possibility of obtaining support for the necessary adaptations – says tvn24.pl Minister of Education Barbara Nowacka.
In Opoczno in the Łódź Voivodeship a few weeks ago they tried to transform five rural elementary schools into “Educational, Integration and Cultural Institutions”. They fell in collision with dissatisfaction of residents of depopulating villages. The resistance was so great that the mayor did not even manage to submit a request to the school board, which considers all such transformations. And he must agree to them. This is an important element of the system, which on the one hand is to protect small schools from hasty closing, but on the other hand it stiffens the network of facilities.
The latter is very severe, especially for small rural municipalities that spend a lot of education.
It happens really hard with it. In Lower Silesia, they wonder if several municipalities could lose themselves on one school. Like today, local government officials sign agreements on the joint management of waste and are shedding for this purpose.
“But children are not rubbish,” we hear from politicians. The matter is not easy.
And it is with this matter that he has to urgently – and it is in the whole country – to deal with Barbara Nowacka.
Than demographic and increasing holes in local government budgets cause an increasingly louder discussion about whether you could somehow restore gymnasium. “
Therefore, we check whether it is possible and whether some municipalities could really help.
Than (i) Anna Zalewska
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