The text discusses media education in the changeable situation of curriculum in the Polish school. It briefly analyses the changes in media education in some EU countries. There is also quite a detailed analysis of new and old curriculum of the 4th educational stage in Poland. The author describes the legal aspects of implementing media education in the Polish school and shows the possibilities given by the current curriculum. Possibilities which are still not often used, as derives from the research results included in the text. The last part of the text contains the analysis of new curriculum in the view of media education, extracts of new documents and questions about the future of media education in the Polish school.