Niewiedza obywatelska uczniów - nowy problem polonisty?

The author presents the problem of school citizenship education. Based on facts from the literature on the subject and the results of a survey of 13- and 16-year-old students, the author indicates their little citizenship knowledge. The author successively refers to the analysis of core curriculas. The apparent richness of content clashes with the results of extensive analyzes of the team of researchers from the School Pedagogy Department of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, who discovered in the content of the core curricula poverty of categories related to citizenship competencies. Finally, the researcher refers to Polish language educational practices, whose authors (teachers) are able to give citizenship education the right shape and direction