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Public Life 1
“DO what I say, not what I do.” Words that seems to have a resounding echo in me as I face my first official week in Cagayan de Oro City National High School over in Cogon area. My first thoughts as one school head mentioned this was like a feeling of inconsistencies and a mix of what is reality. Public school is a battlefield; a warzone for that matter.
The first Friday before we had our official send off to the public school, I was told that the teacher in charge already retired and it has already been two weeks that her five third year sections have not been holding classes; this truly broke my heart. If Rizal once said that the youth is the hope of our future, what hope lies in them when they are not truly cared for? When the system rots and cruelly kills this hope because of the slow system that moves upon the public school. Is it not ironic that the government puts heavy emphasis on private schools on quality education yet they themselves in the public school, cannot seem to implement it and one of these rules is the no softdrinks inside the campuses. How lame and discouraging is this view for me as a student-teacher. This truly needs a revamp.
When my new critic teacher joined me just this Monday, I cannot believe that this government allows, no offense to my kind and generous critic teacher, a non-English major to teach a 40-60 class who is a professional education graduate. No offense to prof-ed takers but I truly have the conviction that BSE or BEEd’s should be placed in the system. They are more qualified to handle and have been trained for hours and so for that job. I cannot believe that they simply place these people on board without helping them in terms of having a syllabus or a course outline of what is supposed to happen. This has already compromised student learnings and has made a total blind to our future as future teachers. If this has already discouraged me seeing the truth, I do not want to be placed in the field blind, I want to truly make the change.
If I ask you, what image has the public school given you? Are you still in favor of the K plus 12 program? What are your insights of today’s system? Questions which remains to be unanswered. The truth hurts, it does.
