CR for ClassRoom
Crowded classrooms, three or more students share a single textbook and now, inadequate space for holding classes.
At the frontpage of Inquirer's saturday issue, I was intrigued by one of its headlines. It was "In this school, lessons spill into toilet." Questions quickly popped in my mind-- What? Classes are held in the CR? How are the children? What do they feel having class in a toilet converted into a classroom? What's the government's action on this kind of situation?
It is a fact that our country has too many students but too few resources. In that same news, I learned that the teachers in that public school,Commonwealth Elementary, "struggle to house every student and cramming them into every available space including corridors, bathrooms and garages." Personally, I pitied the children, they shouldn't be suffering like that and they couldn't do anything but to sacrifice for their future.
It was also written in the story that "parents are pressing to have their children enrolled in Commonwealth school for reasons like it is near their homes or their place of work- a nearby public market. And the only nearby school is a church-run Claret School for boys with 60,000 worth of annual tution- equivalent to six month's wages of a typical minimum-wage earner in Manila." With these statements, I can see that there is not enough school built in that portion of Manila. I'm sure that this kind of problem also exists in other parts of the country. This should serve as a wake up call for the government.
The problem is addressed primarily to those in authority. They should do the efforts to make the educational system of the Philippines more functional.
Education for its citizens is essential to a country. Therefore, education must be a priority of the government.
Allan de Guzman of University of Santo Tomas Center for Educational Research and Development said in the story: "It's best for the government to invest its resources in education. If you try to look comparatively speaking, the world standard for education is eight percent of the National budget but the Philippines only invests 1.3 percent." With this statement, I conclude that more budget, more classrooms, more texbooks result to better education and more progressive country.
At the frontpage of Inquirer's saturday issue, I was intrigued by one of its headlines. It was "In this school, lessons spill into toilet." Questions quickly popped in my mind-- What? Classes are held in the CR? How are the children? What do they feel having class in a toilet converted into a classroom? What's the government's action on this kind of situation?
It is a fact that our country has too many students but too few resources. In that same news, I learned that the teachers in that public school,Commonwealth Elementary, "struggle to house every student and cramming them into every available space including corridors, bathrooms and garages." Personally, I pitied the children, they shouldn't be suffering like that and they couldn't do anything but to sacrifice for their future.
It was also written in the story that "parents are pressing to have their children enrolled in Commonwealth school for reasons like it is near their homes or their place of work- a nearby public market. And the only nearby school is a church-run Claret School for boys with 60,000 worth of annual tution- equivalent to six month's wages of a typical minimum-wage earner in Manila." With these statements, I can see that there is not enough school built in that portion of Manila. I'm sure that this kind of problem also exists in other parts of the country. This should serve as a wake up call for the government.
The problem is addressed primarily to those in authority. They should do the efforts to make the educational system of the Philippines more functional.
Education for its citizens is essential to a country. Therefore, education must be a priority of the government.
Allan de Guzman of University of Santo Tomas Center for Educational Research and Development said in the story: "It's best for the government to invest its resources in education. If you try to look comparatively speaking, the world standard for education is eight percent of the National budget but the Philippines only invests 1.3 percent." With this statement, I conclude that more budget, more classrooms, more texbooks result to better education and more progressive country.
posted by maricar @ 7/10/2006 09:17:00 AM
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