Vice President Sara Duterte’s statement that her resignation as education secretary was made out of compassion for the teachers and the youth was confusing for the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT).
Teachers are demanded to grade objectively. Students are commanded to deliver. And while this seems to be the most efficient way to identify who “passes” and who “fails”, it disregards the human aspect of education. In fact, it is this obsession with efficiency and production that reveals how misplaced the priority of our education system is.
In the Philippines, students are not created equal. A high school student of the special section gets to use a flush toilet in a tiled and well-maintained bathroom which he…
By CHERYLL D. FIEL
Davao Today
“As this school year marks the second year of implementing government’s new K+12 program, it only adds to the already chaotic public school system in the country.” – Elenito Escalante, public high school teacher & President of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers of the Philippines Davao Region Union
Parents join the 2013 National Schools Maintenance Week Monday in Davao City’s Palma Gil Elementary School. The activity which runs until May 25 is a “nationwide voluntary effort to do…