The sad state of Philippine education
65 students per teacher among woeful school conditions, reports the GMA News.
As schools across the country opened today, we are hearing pretty much the same thing that we’ve heard before: overcrowded schools, public schools severely lacking basic facilities like comfort rooms, etc., etc. There is news I read that, you simply cannot blame the “private school mentality” now, because parents want their kids to not only have decent education but also basic school facilities like comfort rooms.
We’re not even short of rational debate on how to improve public education. We all agree that it is clearly in the long-term interest of our country to educate our young. Why previous administration is not willing to spend significantly more money on education given the endemic problems, who knows. And given the same problems we hear, year after year, it seemed like no one really cares.
The news goes on with … “Year after year, public schools in the Philippines see these usual scenarios: an average of 1:65 teacher-student ratio, a 3:1 student-book ratio, cramped classrooms, dirty toilets, and underpaid teachers. “
Sad.
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reynz is one Uragon and a Filipino-American, has many years of public accounting & auditing, broadcast investments, housing tax credits and equity investments as his background. Based in the US, he maintains his personal and humor blog at reyna elena dot com. A graduate of Aquinas U, he went to GWU and Temple U in the United States.
That is a the result of too much corruption, too much politics, not much time for Education. I just hope that the next Gov’t would pay attention to this. This is a shame! Again, I would put the blame to Gloria Arroyo, 9 yrs of Presidency, and yet, this is what we got!
the rate of population vis a vis economic development is also a culprit and what’s disappointing is that yon mga nag-nga-ngal-ngal na anak nang lang nang anak, wala namang program na maitulong.
Pinoys are highly prolific. Kaawaan Nyo-Po sila!
Hindi kasi napriprioty ang education dito. But hey, kahit ganyan ang statistics ng education, no doubt na we got raw talents and intelligent students here. Kelangan lang nila ng support para manurture ang kanilang dunong.
Sabi ko sa iyo Reynz, ituloy mo na ang pagtayo ng PRE (Pamantasang Reyna Elena).
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this is really sad.. paano natin masasabi na ang kabataan ang kinabukasan ng bayan kung hindi rin naman natin sila binibigyan ng maganda edukasyon para magamit nila once sila na ang nasa posisyon nating matatanda ngayon? ano ang karunungan na maipapasa nila sa mga anak nila pag sila na ang nagka-pamilya?..
nakaka-lungkot ang statistics na ito..
the government must invest in health and education.
we need books and classrooms. when i say book i mean real book. not a kindle piece of shit.
Nakita nyo wala pala ginawa si bansot gma pati dept. of education, ano ginawa nila sa 9 years kurakutin lahat grabe shameful talaga.
This is a serious concern and I think many students for year 2010 transferred to public school due to high tuition fees in private schools.
Well, sometimes I’m thinking if Filipinos are really helpful. I was so amazed when I saw the bayanihan last Ondoy calamity. But having high tuition fees in private schools sometimes makes me think again if the people in-charge are really concern. I’m not sure if this story was real but a friend of mine told me that the elementary tuition fee in Brent International (Cabuyao Laguna) last 2008 was 700,000 Php for the entire year. My goodness gracious! But I think they have a home-to-school (vise versa) service for the students. I saw their air-conditioned bus in Makati area one time (that’s a bit far for a daily service).
But honestly and if this is true, I might talk to the principal and ask guarantee that my son will be the next Einstein…hahaha (joke).
You don’t want me to get started on this, hehehehe…
the floor is yours hahaha! alam mo ba, noon, i think i was in grade 5 or 6, kaming mga ka-klase, gumawa nang comfort room. una, humukay kami nang pagkalalim lalim sa likod nang school namen. para kaming mga north koreans haha simple lang naman. natapos. kaso alam mo naman, walang tubig. hahaha! ‘day you have no idea! sa sobrang baho, pinasara nang principal. tinabunan uli namen hahah ayun, nawalan kami nang onidoro hahaha
When I was working there, second highest budget ang natatanggap ng DECS from the government – pangalawa sa military! Pero the most corrupt agency and DECS, and I have personally seen how it works from the inside. I cannot fight the system but it makes me puke talaga so I left. Kasi nga di ba, if you can’t beat them daw, join them. I couldn’t do both so I jumped at the first decent opportunity for me to teach overseas. The entire system is rotten from the core to the tentacles. I will not be surprised if one day, I will find Bangladesh passing us in terms of literacy.
I experienced that too. Nagpa “project” nga stage sa elementary school namin noon, hehehehe. Ang fund raiser namin eh yung Mr.and Ms. Valentine. Tapos yung proceeds, kasya lang makapagpatayo ng four layers of hollow blocks na 8meters long, 5 meters wide, at mga 4 feet high. After that every afternoon, lakad mga estudyante, punta sa may tabing ilog kuha ng lupa tig half ng sako per trip. Tapos walk back to the “stage” at yun ang landfill namin hanggang mapuno yung area. Kung ilang trip ka, yun ang grade mo. Ang tawag sa subject na yun, YCAP! One hour everyday yan (3-4PM)..mga grade 5 and 6 students hanggang napuno yung “stage” ng lupa. The following year, saka lang nasimento yung floor after another Mr. and Ms. Valentine, hehehehe.
O di ba, pasukan ng 7:00AM pero classes don’t start till 9:AM kasi maglilinis pa ng room, walis ng paligid, putol damo, dilig ng halaman, etc. Tapos 11:30 uwian na kasi mamalengke pa si Ma’am ng pananghalian nila… Pasok ulit ng 1:30 pero 4:00 YCAP na, grrrrr. Yan ang education sa barrio namin…andami pang out of school youth gawa ng giyera. Kung mahina hina ang foresight mo at natangay ka ng agos, you will be damned perpetually in the cycle of hand to mouth existence, hehehehe. God bless the Philippines. I still love my hometown but boy, I’m so glad to be out of there.
hahahaha
Nyahahah…ayan na si Kutz! Hahahhahah….
may kalungkutan, dapat gawan ng paraan. kaya ito! basta tulong tulong,gobyerno at ang sambayanan.
Ang nakakatawa sa atin: computer age na tayo pero sa malalayong probinsya na di abot ng electrification ay kawawa ang mga bata kasi sa IT instructions nila e drawings and pictures lang ng computers ang kanilang nakikita. Imagine this setting: pag sinabi ng teacher na “This is the mouse”, the children might be having in their minds the “thing” that is afraid of the cat. I can’t blame them for that. Paano na ito? kelangan bang mga tao sa syudad lang ang me dunong? hayz