A few dozen students and their parents are occupying a Polish high school in Athens, Greece. They are protesting against the education ministry's decision to introduce distance learning in place of standard school lessons.
“From September 2009, schooling for first year classes at the high school will be conducted via distance learning classes, using on-line learning capacities,” says Magdalena Boguslawska, director of the institution responsible for Polish schools abroad.
A similar policy has been forced on a high school in Brussels, where distance learning is also going to substitute normal classes.
The network of Polish schools abroad affiliated to embassies needs to be reformed, claims the Ministry of National Education. But the real reason is money and cutbacks, Deputy Minister Krzysztof Stanowski revealed.
“Because of the depreciation of Polish zloty, we have lost one third of the budget. […]. If we don't do anything, we would spend all our budget by September 1,” Stanowski explained.
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