On 25 July 2025, a fresh curriculum for teaching Ukrainian as a second abroad language for grades VII to VIII of primary schools was published. Although the initiative is formally educational, it is hard not to announcement the political and social dimension of this decision, namely to service Ukrainians whose country is profoundly immersed in flagism and thus to glorify Polish murderers. Is the introduction of Ukrainian into Polish schools in this form an act in the interest of Polish students, or alternatively a bow towards the Ukrainian community and its increasing influence in Poland? It's a rhetorical question.
What does learning abroad languages in the Polish simple school look like?
Currently, the educational strategy in Poland provides for 2 stages of language learning:
Stage I (Classes I to III) – learning 1 modern abroad language.
Stage II (Classes IV to VIII) – learning 2 languages, with the second appearing only from Class VII.
Schools have any freedom to choose languages – the final decision belongs to the manager and depends on the availability of staff, local conditions and expectations of parents (social and non-public schools).
Domination of English – logical and justified
It is no secret that the number 1 language in Poland (and throughout Europe) remains Englishwhich is taught almost 100% of students. The following languages are German, Spanish and French. Contrary to popular opinion, Russian is inactive present, although its position is weakening.
Now the Ministry of Education announces gradual replacement of Russian by Ukrainian. However, it is worth noting: neither Ukrainian nor Russian are languages widely utilized in global business, discipline or technology. So it is easy to answer the question: is their presence in the language grid pragmatic – or alternatively political?
Demographic reality – an argument or an excuse?
Since 2014, the number of Ukrainians legally residing in Poland has risen avalanchely – from 41,000 to over 1.55 million. As many as half of almost 1 million people covered by temporary protection are children. Around 160 1000 of them already attend Polish schools – this number may increase due to fresh rules for providing 800+, which make it dependent on the attendance of the kid in the Polish school.
The introduction of Ukrainian into primary schools is contrary to the request to assimilate Ukrainians with Polish students. It's terrifying that Ukrainian children dictate the direction of the improvement of the Polish education system. This is not why their grandparents and grandmothers fucked Poles in order to build a “single Ukraine” on Polish dead bodies, to influence education in the III Poland.
New programming basis – who is behind it and why?
The author of the software base is Dr Paweł Lewczuk from the Institute of Slavics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The initiative besides supported Artur Bagliuk, Ukrainian entrepreneur and typical of the Polish-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce. The task was created with the participation of the Embassy of Ukraine.
Such a staff composition and support of Ukrainian institutions leave no illusions – this project supporting the interests of the Ukrainian minoritynot a strategical approach to language training of Polish children. A passage of the basis, which explains the increase in interest in Ukrainian as a consequence to Russian aggression, suggests that we are dealing more with ideological than educational justification.
Priorities...
In addition, in situations where students are faced with a programme overload and teachers are alerting about staff shortages, the introduction of a fresh language will only deepen the organisational problems of schools. alternatively of investing in the improvement of competences of the future – specified as programming languages, English manufacture or activities supporting logical reasoning – the Ukrainian language is promoted, which is of negligible importance in the global dimension, and what is more, many Poles callback the worst memories and stories of genocide which Ukrainians conducted on their Polish neighbours.
