Simon Holown's daughter was not admitted to Catholic school. Have the political views and actions of the Marshal of the Sejm affected here? And should Catholic school always separate between students due to their parent?
Szymon Holownia revealed on Instagram that his daughter was not admitted to a Catholic school in Warsaw. “Because of me,” he explained. The politician later removed his comment, but the thing was publicized in the media. Journalists reached the facility that refused to accept Holownia's daughter, and the information was given in a way suggestive of a large scandal; even Barbara Nowacka commented. Refusing to have a kid would be discrimination.
The case is interesting and you can point to any crucial aspects of it.
There is no uncertainty that the school did the right thing if its motivation was to disagree on Simon Holownia's political views and activities. The facility in question declares in its charter that all students will be admitted, under 1 condition: that their parents will cooperate in the work of Christian kid rearing. In the case of Simon Holownia, we cannot be certain that this will happen; conversely, we can alternatively presume serious obstacles. Marshal of the Sejm only in the past months:
– supported the financing of the freezing of human embryos from the state budget;
– supported the legality of ‘after’ pills, which may have abortion effects;
– promotes a referendum on the legality of killing conceived children;
– accepted laws aimed at facilitating the killing of conceived children;
– he did not respond to the actions of Donald Tusk, Isabella Leschina and Adam Bodnar, which are to lead to the killing of children conceived on the basis of a certificate from a psychiatrist.
In short: The political activity of Holowna is not only consistent with any general recommendations of the Catholic Church, but is straight contrary to Catholic science. Hence, the hope that Holownia will cooperate with the Catholic school in the work of Christian kid rearing would be unfounded. From the point of view of the intent of the mission, which should guide the Catholic school, the refusal to accept his daughter is so correct.
Could the school have done that? Of course I do.; the admission of the kid is dependent on the decision of the manager and remains the work of the freedom to conclude contracts between the school and the parent. There are no guidelines that could force the school to accept any student if it does not fit the school profile. The recruitment process is always a process of selection and differentiation, according to different criteria. It would be illegal if the school refused to accept the student, for example, due to his skin colour; but discriminating (and this is formally "discrimination") due to the alleged "worldview" is absolutely justified.
Minister Barbara Nowack thinks otherwise. "It is unacceptable to discriminate against children on account of their parents' views," she said in a short comment for "Fact".
The above words evidence of 2 very dangerous viewsThe minister's evidently paying tribute to.
First, you can see in this a claim to take over the education sphere with close central control, even as regards private and Catholic education. This is simply a typical revolutionary attitude: all systems rejecting God want to take full control of the education of citizens, so as to form them solely according to their own ideas. Barbara Nowacka would seemingly like to dictate a private Catholic educational facility that students can accept and not accept.
Secondly – and this is the most interesting – You can see here a deep conviction that you can or even request to separate your parents' beliefs from your child's beliefs. “Discrimination” of children due to their parents’ views is linked to the apparent presumption that the kid reflects the views of parents, in another words – If parents are sincere Catholics, then the kid is so; if parents are anti-clerical socialists, so will the child. Such dependence is besides actual for Nowacka herself: Barbara's mother, Isabella Jaruga-Nowacka, was a committed feminist.
Barbara Nowacka has 2 children and it will be reasonable to presume that at the age of 7 or 8 they did not preach the necessity of conducting a Catholic counter-revolution.
The belief that parents' views should not affect the decision to admit or not to school seems to reflect deep recognition of Nowacka with the revolutionary thought of educational totality. The revolutionaries in France tried to make a school strategy that would effectively separate children from both parents and grandparents, so that they could be formed only by the state, without any household influence. In this kind of system, parents ’ views truly do not matter! The reality is different today, but Does not Barbara Nowacka, as a typical left-wing activist, just dream of a revolutionary state of affairs in which what they think and believe children will be decided only by the state collective? It seems that – yes; it is, of course, a problem of state education in general, only that it becomes clearer blushes in the case of left-wing power.
Finally, 1 more point, not marginal. Many commentators asked online whether the facility that rejected Holowna's daughter was receiving state grants. Journalists have said yes. In principle, state grants to private schools are not peculiarly advanced – the state actually saves on private education, due to the fact that if the same children were taught in public school, the spending on them would be much higher than those in grants. However, it is actual that the grants are – and on this basis the State can make a claim to influence the policy of the school concerned, threatening to receive the grant. Ultimately, it would be much better if Catholic private schools did not receive specified grants at all. However, this would mean raising a tuition that many parents could no longer afford: The economical strategy is constructed so that the state takes a immense part of the income of the household in various taxes.
The existence of the dependencies in question only proves that the genuine freedom of the Church is hard to implement in the socialist state in which we live; The formation of children in Catholic religion cannot be completely separated from economical freedom.
Hence, we must always fight for both.
Paweł Chmielewski
