Who is afraid of health education and why?

Law and Justice deputies did not ask directly about health education - it was just one part of a general question about the situation in education, staff shortages, the growing (according to opposition deputies) percentage of students who have to use tutoring. - Instead of health education, wouldn't it be better to introduce one extra hour of mathematics, just like that, without throwing around ideological arguments? - asked Waldemar Anzel, who at the same time wanted to know how many students signed out of the health education subject in the first week of September. - You are the authors of the most popular word in Poland: resignation, and this is thanks to the mass resignation of parents from the participation of their children in so-called health education classes," his club colleague Joanna Borowiak echoed. - You are trying to limit the role of parents at school, you are encroaching on their competencies and rights. You are trying to bail them out, and this is taking revenge on you, because they don't want it.

- I know that your MPs have a problem distinguishing ovulation from a period, and they blush at the word "polycysts,"" retorted Katarzyna Lubnauer, recalling the now-famous conversation in one of the TV stations with Law and Justice MPs, who showed a lack of elementary knowledge about the functioning of the female body. - As you know, the unknown man is afraid, and therefore you are afraid of health education.

The deputy head of the Ministry of Education quite unexpectedly cited a recent letter from the Polish Episcopal Commission (on religious instruction). - There, very important words were said about what condition, physical condition, mental condition the youth are in today. There was talk of emotional crisis, there was talk of mental health, there was talk of aggression, there was talk of addictions. Exactly the vaccine for this is to be health education. It is supposed to teach young people about the dangers of the Internet. It is supposed to teach young people how to be careful when dealing with people out there somewhere on the other side of the screen. It's supposed to teach young people how to deal with mental stress," she enumerated, pointing out that health education will also give tips on where to seek help, how to live a healthy life, taking care of nutrition and physical activity. - This is what health education is for. You, on the other hand, have made an enemy out of health education, thereby disadvantaging those children who will not benefit from this health education. Why? Because apparently for you politics and your ideological fierceness is more important than the welfare of children. It is very important for the welfare of children that they know how to be careful on the Internet, how not to be subject to sexting or grooming. It is very important for children to know where to put boundaries regarding their bodies. It is very important for children to know where to seek help if they have mental problems," she concluded.