School retreats constitute an unusual form of preaching the Gospel by the Church. They are organised for children and teenagers catechized at one school in order to enrich their Christian lives. In the school organisation plan, retreats have to be included in its basic document, i.e. comprehensive educational plan. Therefore, the headmaster should feel obliged to undertake actions related to their organisation. The new school management system provides numerous possibilities to prepare strategic plans and this way, include the retreats into the programme of school work. The actions such as: determining the nature of retreats in the school statute, including them in the school proactive plans (personal development and prevention programmes) as well as organising pedagogue teams and cooperating with the institution of Church are laborious, time-consuming and difficult for the headmaster. However, they may bring measurable benefits such as; raising the level of school work, reducing or eliminating improper behaviours of children and teenagers, supplementing the didactic process, fulfilling the core curriculum as well as engaging the pupils by various practical forms of retreats.
Polish gender studies lecturers, on the grounds of translations of well known western feminists such as J. Butler, A. Rich, E. Badiner, S. de Beauvoir, are of the opinion, that the roles of both women and men are defined by culture, and the problem of sex identity is the outcome of social, historical and cultural relations, which make the feminine “otherness” related to women’s worse social situation. Just that “otherness”, “dissimilarity”, “non-identity” of women towards men is the source of their discrimination. A woman must then masculinise herself in appearance through the change of stylistics of her body, and inwardly through the presentation of features habitually attributed to men: domination, rationality, effectiveness, individualism, determination, abstract thinking, aggression, self-confidence and independence. It can be noticed, that in the name of social equality of sexes, Polish gender activists will deprive women of typically feminine features, regarding them as less talented than their male equivalent. An attempt to relieve women from stereotyped socially imposed evaluations affects in turn in the evaluation of women’s competences conditioned by stereotyped thinking. Thereby gender studies experts assess feminine features as inappropriate and of little value. Such a generalization is also a stereotype, namely a conviction, that all women are only emotional, indecisive, or not effective enough. They cannot think logically, are susceptible to stress and have low self-esteem. A woman with feminine features is in gender theories uncomplimentary, incomplete, not equal to man, that is why she must be completed with typically masculine features. The presentation of women in gender studies as helpless victims of men, creates their image of a legally incapacitated, deprived of the possibility to decide about themselves, and it is a vision which does not correspond with reality. Equalizing women’s social chances, considering them as “worse” than men seems to be preposterous.