K12: where do we go from here?
If the Senior High School students find K-12 too much to bear at this stage, the parents are even more stressed than assured.
Street protests are best teachers then and now
I was barely in my teens and a greenhorn freshman when the despotic regime of Ferdinand Marcos declared Martial Law in 1972. Having been raised in an outback island where life was easy and unperturbed by the social turbulences in the cities, I was not perturbed by the growing tensions in the national capital and elsewhere, where there were resistance.
Eid al-Adha: The innocent lives that we sacrificed
It was the feast of sacrifice that the Muslim world were celebrating on Friday, September 1, and traffic was heavy along Bolton bridge as parking spaces were filled and many…
Kian’s death and the fake show of concern
Watching the Senate inquiry on the murder of a 17-year-old drug suspect makes me feel like government officials are making us look like fools who don’t know anything about law and order.
We lost the spirit of Kadayawan
Kadayawan asta karaatan maglumon. In English, this Dabawenyo expression means “the good and the bad are siblings”, symbolizing the duality of things: the yin and the yang, darkness and light, the…