Burza nad sześciolatkiem

Abstract

In connection with a great interest in the subject of a six-year old pupil at school expressed by different backgrounds and often conflicting, even mutually exclusive views, the subject considered in this study seems to fit in the general trend in the proliferation of concepts, arguments, ideas, justifications and positions. This very text discusses the assumptions of the educational reform related to lowering a school threshold in the background of international benchmarking of education systems. An analysis has been made of financial plans for the educational reform as well as the level of participation of sixyear olds in the implementation of compulsory education in the three-year transitional period of the reform. Expectations of parents and their six-year old children towards school are presented on the basis of empirical studies. In order to put aside digressions about negative effects of lowering a school threshold, or an enthusiastic vision of the benefits of ministerial solutions, this study refers to scientific facts and theories considered against factual problems of the Polish school.