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Read more about the article EDITORIAL: Preventing the next school shooting goes beyond security drills
Students arrive for their 6 a.m. classes Tuesday under tightened entry procedures at Davao City National High School (DCNHS). Security personnel searched each student’s bag at the entrance. Armed police officers were posted to monitor the campus by 6:20 a.m. Public schools across Davao City increased security presence and police visibility following the deadly school shooting in Tacloban City Monday, June 22. via Marianne Guinoo | University of the Philippines-Mindanao, Intern

EDITORIAL: Preventing the next school shooting goes beyond security drills

THE SHOOTING at Ateneo de Zamboanga on Aug. 18, which killed two students including the gunman, continues to reverberate across Mindanao schools. In news reports, two colleges in Davao City…

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Read more about the article EDITORIAL: When the Terror Law spreads fear, people fight back 
Protesters express dissent against the Anti-Terrorism Law in a short program, saying it will only curtail freedom of expression (Kath M. Cortez/davaotoday.com).

EDITORIAL: When the Terror Law spreads fear, people fight back 

This July marks six years since the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 (ATA) was signed by then-President Rodrigo Duterte during one of the country's longest pandemic lockdowns. On this anniversary, human…

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Read more about the article PNoy’s failed legacy in Mindanao continues under Duterte
President Rodrigo Duterte and former President Benigno Aquino III (davaotoday.com)

PNoy’s failed legacy in Mindanao continues under Duterte

From ‘’Daang Matuwid to “Change is Coming,” the rhetoric of failed promises has made the road to progress in Mindanao uneven and torturous.

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Read more about the article EDITORIAL| A different kind of assault

EDITORIAL| A different kind of assault

Approximately 26 million children trooped to major public and some private schools during the opening of classes today nationwide. But the annual event did not hog the headlines as it would normally do. This, as the country was gripped with the attack by a lone gunman at the elite Resorts World Manila last dawn Friday. Foremost in the minds of the many was the question whether the attack was a terrorist assault grave enough to precipitate a martial law declaration nationwide, and graver still, that it would impede the school opening today.

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