The municipality of Dobrodzień is one of the 54 municipalities in the Opole Voivodeship where students attended German as a minority language classes for 3 hours a week.

In December 2021, by the decision of Law and Justice MPs and Kukiz 15 MPs, a budget was passed reducing the amount of the subsidy allocated for this purpose. As a consequence of these actions, the Minister of Education and Science, Przemysław Czarnek, published in February 2022 a regulation openly discriminating against Polish citizens, in particular children attending minority language classes. According to the regulation, pupils attending German classes as a minority may learn this language for only 1 lesson hour, while other national and ethnic minorities in Poland can still learn their language for 3 hours per week. Mattheus Czellnik, Chairman of the DFK Dobrodzień Club: When we found out that the mayor of Dobrodzien, Andrzej Jasiński, did not plan to finance an additional hour of German in the new school year, as was the case in the previous school year, the German minority in the municipality of Dobrodzień sent a written request to maintain the financing of an additional hour. This topic was raised during the education committee of the Dobrodzień City Council, but no binding decision was made at that time. However, the members of the German Minority, in order to support parents demanding support for the financing of classes, did not wait for the decision to be made and took the initiative to collect signatures under a petition demanding funding for German language classes for children. This petition was signed by 1169 residents and was delivered on July 24 this year to the City Hall. Finally, during the session of the City Council on 31.07.2023, the Mayor announced that he had decided to keep one additional lesson of German as a minority language in grades I-III. The mayor justifies this by the lack of funds in the budget, without looking at the will of the residents expressed in the petition and the welfare of the children. However, we are not giving up. We have submitted a draft resolution as part of the citizens' legislative initiative, in which we have included our intention to finance an additional hour of German. We are waiting for our application to be considered and our resolution adopted. We believe in common sense and the goodwill of our Councillors. As Rafał Bartek, Chairman of the Social and Cultural Association of Germans in Opole Silesia (TSKN) said: "This decision is very harmful to our community, and above all to children, who now learn German on an absolutely minimum part-time basis. We are striving to withdraw this discriminatory regulation. While this regulation is in force, we are talking to municipalities to get local governments to take over the financing of the two hours that have been taken away. At the moment, 40 municipalities in the Opolskie Voivodeship pay two or one hour extra, for which we are very grateful as a community. However, there are municipalities where this support is lacking, such as the municipality of Dobrodzień" Bernard Gaida, a resident of Dobrodzien: In the previous school year, the municipality of Dobrodzień paid for an additional hour of learning German as a minority. This year, the situation is quite different. We have been informed that the municipality cannot afford to finance an additional hour of German. The matter so insistently reduced to finance is not so simple. The state violates human rights in the country, and therefore also in our commune. An attempt to remove a systemically discriminatory law should be one of the priorities of the municipality. It is also a question of the order of values. Where someone is discriminated against, the scale of values should include an attempt to remove the effects of that discrimination. If we do not strive for such an order, then we should ask the question of where we are as a society, whether we are not going backwards in the development of civilization. Sylwia Kus, Secretary of TSKN: We must not give up, we must strive to ensure that our children have the greatest possible opportunity to learn German. We have many examples that a well-mastered language is an absolute asset on the job market. It also means that in a region that is facing demographic problems, most young people can stay in the knowledge that they will find a good job and a decent wage and opportunities for development. It is us, the local government officials, the inhabitants of this region, who should care the most about the future generations being able to use the German language. First of all, to preserve our identity and culture, and thus the distinguishing feature of this region. It is a pity that not all local government officials understand this.