Poland: Faced with the influx of Ukrainian refugees, teachers demonstrate in Warsaw

Ukrainian high school students walk in the hallway of a Polish school where the flags of the two countries stand, in Warsaw, in March 2022. (illustrative image) AFP - WOJTEK RADWANSKI

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In Poland, the teachers are exhausted.

Since this weekend, and throughout the week, they have shown their anger in Warsaw.

They have settled near the building of the Ministry of Education and hold conferences to alert citizens to the malaise affecting the profession.

Especially since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, 

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Poland has taken in hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees.

Many have joined the school here, but Szymon Lepper, a 36-year-old teacher who came from the north of the country to demonstrate, judges that the government has not helped them.

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", explains Szymon Lepper.

Classes are overcrowded and often poorly equipped. 

These teachers then set up an educational village, as they call it.

They give lectures under large tents and hope to raise awareness among Poles of the problems they face.

Bartosz Machalica is a political scientist, he took history textbooks with him: "

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It refers to the new ultra-conservative History textbook introduced in September.

It was written by a historian who sat in the European Parliament under the label of the ruling party.

The teachers who demonstrate 24 hours a day hope to be able to discuss with the Minister of Education.

His offices are 100 meters away, but so far he has not responded to the invitation. 

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