Dorota Loboda (left).Dorota Łoboda during a demonstration in Warsaw.
The reform of the Polish education system in 2016–2018 under the Law and Justice (PiS) government of Poland shifted from a 6+3+3–year (primary plus junior-high plus senior-high) schooling system to an 8+4–year (primary plus high) school system. Łoboda was a leader of the Families Against Education Reform movement (Polish: Rodzice Przeciwko Reformie Edukacji) that opposed the PiS reforms.[1]
In March 2017, Łoboda planned a protest in front of the Warsaw building of the Ministry of Education in which parents planned to bring tyres. The plan was "not to burn the tyres like miners do [in their protests]", while symbolising that the protestors had earlier "been polite" and that the scale of the protest was growing. Łoboda described the 10 March 2017 school strike, in which some schools had only ten percent attendance by pupils, as a sign of the strength of opposition to the reform plans.[6]
Łoboda was the vice-president of a committee that collected signatures calling for a referendum on the proposed reform.[1] The referendum petition collected 910,000 signatures.[7] The referendum petition was rejected by PiS, which refused Łoboda a chance to present the referendum project to the Sejm, the Polish lower house of parliament.[1]
On 7 June 2018, Łoboda became a member of the Board of the Foundation of Families Have a Voice (Polish: Fundacja Rodzice Mają Głos), based in Warsaw.[3]
