Przemysław Czarnek made the remark in an interview with Polish state news agency PAP.
The initiative, called Rainbow Friday, is held annually on the last Friday of October, news outlets reported.
The campaign aims to provide emotional support to LGBT+ youth, emphasising that "there is a place for them" in Polish schools, according to organisers, the rights group Campaign Against Homophobia (KPH).
Rainbow Friday celebrated 'in a marginal number of schools': education minister
Czarnek told the PAP news agency: “Rainbow Friday definitely won’t be held in all of Poland and definitely not in all the schools.”
He added: “According to our information, it will take place in a marginal number of schools, those with irresponsible head teachers who don’t look after the right education and upbringing of children. Let me remind everyone that these must comply with the school curriculum.”
Meanwhile, Warsaw Deputy Mayor Renata Kaznowska supported the Rainbow Friday initiative, saying that there was “no place for homophobia” or “any form of discrimination” in the education system, the PAP news agency reported.
‘Unlawful attempt to introduce ideology' to Polish schools
Błażej Poboży, a politician with Poland’s ruling conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, told reporters that celebrating Rainbow Friday in schools was "another unlawful attempt to introduce an ideology from which schools should be free.”
Meanwhile, a rival initiative called Noble Friday encouraged the public “to demonstrate the importance of values that are contrary to the LGBT ideology, such as nobility, purity and fidelity,” by wearing a white item of clothing or pinning a white detail to their clothes, the PAP news agency reported.
(pm/gs)
Source: PAP, wpolityce.pl