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Where do these problems come from? According to the survey of the DGP, due to the liquidation of junior high schools in some cities, the number of classes in secondary schools has been reduced. Schools are preparing well for two years, which in the next year – as part of the reform – will apply to the places in the binders. But that's not all. This year, junior high students achieved surprisingly good results in science exams. Meanwhile, classes with these profiles are considered the most elite. As a result, the best schools have significantly increased the threshold from which the student could rely on the reception.
– With my results a year ago, I would have been in high school, which I indicated during the first stage of recruitment. This year, it turned out that all the schools I wanted to go to had a higher threshold than last year – says Ala, a high school student from Warsaw. She did not enter any of the eight schools she visited. She had to start the extra recruiting. Martyna, a student of one of the best gyms in the capital, has a certificate with a red band. His average at the end of the year was 5.5. The high school exam of most subjects exceeded 90 percent. During her recruitment, she applied to six schools and a total of a dozen courses. She did not have one.
– This year, we had many situations that the child not only did not know us, but also from other institutions – admits Katarzyna Piotrowska, director of the third secondary school. Adama Mickiewicza in Katowice. It was impossible to predict how many points you had to have to reach the institution. For most students, the comparison was the previous year, while the point thresholds changed. Piotrowska says the recruitment was like roulette, because it could happen that the big students do not get anywhere.
The spokesmen of the city assure that in the additional recruitment one always finds places, and if the child does not arrive at LO industrial or technical school. This, however, is not a solution for students who have relied on places in the best generalities.
Class struggle intensifies as reform progresses
In most cities, the first stage of recruitment in upper secondary schools is completed. It's turned out to be a bigger challenge than the students have assumed. In Warsaw alone, 1,582 pupils were not admitted to general secondary schools. A year earlier – 1256. In Olsztyn, 189 students did not go to the chosen school, 83 more than last year and 74 in Gdynia – more than twice as much as in 2017 / 2018.
This is a consequence of the limited number of places. institutions that have decided to prepare for the arrival of a double year next year. A at the same time in many cities the number of volunteers to become high school students has increased. – We have prepared 1266 seats, against 1380 a year earlier. There were 1406 students who applied for it, 26 more than in 2017 – confirms Marta Bartoszewicz of the Olsztyn mayoralty. Fewer people were admitted to Sopot during the first call to high school, where 266 students were admitted, against 346 a few years ago. In 1965, Sopot high schools report the admission of 289 young graduates of secondary education, 75 fewer than in 2017. – This is the effect of liquidation of a branch in two schools – explains Magdalena Czarzyńska-Jachim, spokesperson of Sopot
3066 people fought for high schools. In 2017, 3,145 students had more than 300 seats to choose from. Finally, 2,691 students qualified for high school, 100 less than last year. – In current recruitment at the planning stage, the number of branches in seven general secondary schools has been reduced. In total, eight of them are gone – explains Olga Mazurek-Podleśna from the press office of the President of Lublin. According to the survey conducted by the DGP, there are also exceptions. In Przemyśl, although the number of volunteers has decreased, the educational offer has remained unchanged. Thanks to this, students have more places to choose than last year.
Limiting the number of places available also had other consequences. Thresholds were raised to guarantee admission to school. In the capital, the busiest is the high school. Klementyna Hoffmanowa with more than three students per place. In this year's recruitment to one of the most overcrowded classes with the physical-English-mathematical profile, the threshold was 180 points, six more than last year. In total, the number of classes has decreased by one in this school and the number of volunteers has increased from more than 700 to more than 800.
Students who have not attended school must wait for a vacancy. All hope is that in the schools they have chosen, not all candidates will confirm their willingness to accept. Although sometimes these hopes are in vain. In Mickiewicz of Katowice, no one resigned from the first recruitment. In Staszic, one of the busiest schools in the capital, there are only unique places. As explains the deputy director of the establishment, because people from all over Poland are applying there, the school began to build a boarding house. The mathematical and physical class enjoys a record popularity in which the threshold was 187 points out of 200 possible. Although candidates for additional recruitment get a score as high as in the basic call, management decides in the end.
However, there is another problem. The winners are traditionally Olympic winners who can choose any school. At Mickiewicz High School in Katowice, 196 vacancies were reserved by Olympians. A year ago, there was a lot less, about 50. 125 Olympic athletes competed for Warsaw Staszic and 93 places for the rest. Nearly half of more than 200 places fell in the capital Batory. Is it a fair system? As director of the III LO im. Adam Mickiewicz in Katowice Katarzyna Piotrowska, people with the degree of the winner are able to work very well and are very intelligent. But there are also exceptional cases, such as the Ukrainian winner of a Russian-language Olympiad or a laureate in history, who chose the mathematical class
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