Poland’s Cross—and America’s

POLAND’S CROSS-AND AMERICA’S

Polish students all go to public schools, because the Communist government of their country does not permit religious schools. There is only one school system, the state system, which since 1961 has been entirely secular. Teachers in that system have been instructed by Poland’s ministry of education to “transform the minds of the youth according to Marxist-Leninist teachings, to liberate the youth from superstition, and to prepare the youth for practical participation in the life of the Party.” Yet, incredibly (or not so incredibly, as we shall see), the Communist government continued to tolerate the display in Polish classrooms of crucifixes depicting the death of Jesus Christ.

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POLAND’S CROSS-AND AMERICA’S

Polish students all go to public schools, because the Communist government of their country does not permit religious schools. There is only one school system, the state system, which since 1961 has been entirely secular. Teachers in that system have been instructed by Poland’s ministry of education to “transform the minds of the youth according to Marxist-Leninist teachings, to liberate the youth from superstition, and to prepare the youth for practical participation in the life of the Party.” Yet, incredibly (or not so incredibly, as we shall see), the Communist government continued to tolerate the display in Polish classrooms of crucifixes depicting the death of Jesus Christ.