New Polish Cabinet to drop school uniform

WARSAW, Poland, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- Poland’s liberal pro-EU Civic Platform, the winner of parliamentary elections, announced its plan to abolish government-mandated school uniforms for pupils.

Krystyna Szumilas, Civic Platform’s head of the former parliamentary commission for education, said the issue of primary and secondary school uniforms will be discussed soon by a new parliament, Polish Radio reported Thursday.

Szumilas said children in schools across Poland should stop wearing uniforms this year or in summer 2008 at the latest.

The outgoing conservative government of Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski had decided school uniforms should be obligatory this school term but many schools have ignored the decision.