What Lies in the Education of this Nation

Let us try to find out the major things that will help us realize the best of our nation has been neglected without any source for further life. Education if let out will cause the total disarray of the nation. And the Philippine government has defaulted from its promise of equal literacy and advancement of learning for both poor and the rich, for the marginalized sector has been forgotten and was shrinking into total mess.

1. We can find in Sagay City, Negros two different schools. One is catering the rich and the other one for the poor. The school for the rich is still a public school run by the DepEd with special budget allocation from the City and some other foundations. The facilities are great with air conditioned rooms, spacious place for relaxation as well as great avenue for learning in its advanced library. Only the rich can enter the school; there is a janitor, maintenance personnel and such other auxiliary services which can be found in most private schools. For the note the school is public!

While on the other side of the land (just a border wall serves as a demarcation or should I say discrimination wall) the poor students (some are far intelligent that those in the other school) are languishing over non standard facilities, hot classrooms, poor instructional materials, and no support from the City education board. You can find in there the children of the working class who are giving their heart in most haciendas of the place.

I guess this is the real manifestation of rich and poor discrimination drawn not by the common people but by the government.

2. When I was pursuing my battle in high school, my math teacher said, "Filipinos are genius in mathematics; you can find the unschooled in the market getting success in business; you can find the unschooled getting success in marketing endeavors. We are genius but a fallen genius." Why?

Out there in the premier school of the country you can find such a great problem. They say that the UP is for bright, marginalized students because it is a public school chartered by thee government to promote learning to the people. But right now, it will be hard for a bright, enterprising but poor Filipino student to enter the UP. It would necessarily need the help of people who have influence such school and only the rich can do that.


Breach of Trust

You will argue? Years ago, students in UP will suffer to walk from miles to miles but now the parking area of the university is packed with different forms of cars. A state university? I guess not. Years ago, students in UP would try to get support from foundations to travel to other countries to further enhance their learning but right now a Up student would have his or her tour at his or her own expense because he or she can afford it. A school for poor students? I guess not.

You can find the poor but bright students struggling in other state universities and schools with lower funds. Yes, you can even hear these other state universities crying for funds and voicing the discrimination of the government because they cannot give equal funds for other universities unlike UP. But right in there, right in the hallways of these schools, you can find the bright Filipino students pursuing their learning. Right in there, the true meaning of a STATE SCHOOL is realized.

Well, as Martin Luther King addressed, he refuse to believe that the bank of justice in the country in bankrupt. Yes, I still believe that the justice system of the Philippines hasn't been into bankruptcy. I believe that we can still find some little hope in this country.

(I do not wish to point a finger to any of the schools that I have cited. But I know that if you who have been in any school that I mentioned, if you truly have won education) would understand this cause I am trying to make.

Readdress the country's education system and make this nation a nation of equality for the poor and the rich because if not the desire in making this country a better place, a better financial hub of Far East Asia will fail.