Aim. The subject of the analysis is the centralized system of managing, supervising, and reforming school education prevailing in contemporary Poland. The author points out the issue of simulating the processes of decentralization and democratization of the education of children and adolescents in public education by the governments of the years 1993- 2020. This disenables teachers to forsake behavioral, doctrinal, closed education, in favor of open, constructivist didactics which changes the restrictive class-lesson system. Materials and methods. The subject of the analysis of educational reform strategies is the school policy of the Polish state authorities after 1989 in the context of the discrepancy between the claims of the oppositional social movement „Solidarity” and the prevailing transformed school system in the period of the Third Polish Republic. The main research question is why the 17th-century class-lesson system still prevails. Conclusion. The policy of the educational authorities after 1989 led not only to the restoration of educational centralism, which was not based on scientifi c evidence but also deprived the younger generations of opportunities for quality education adequate to the challenges of the 21st century and the state of knowledge of different paradigms in school didactics.