Manolo,

My one semester stint in a uni nearby (eherm) and two semesters in a uni on Taft have taught me one thing - marketisation of education in the Philippines puts pressure on teachers to pass students. The students know this - and I think this might explain why they think they have license to act as they please. They’re no longer students. They’re customers. And customers are always right. But you are who you are, and so I doubt your chairperson will tell you point blank that you need to lower your standards and pass more students.

So much data, but Mr. Trilles forgot to include the most important one: What’s the cause of it? Good manners and right conduct? Generation gap, and more humane approach to discipline, that’s what it is. Debate, anyone?

The decadence of morality in the changing of generations can be attributed to the never ending economic hardships of the majority because many have lost time in making or having a personal relationship with GOD that the basic Ten Commandments were now taken for granted though taught at home and in schools but it was not like in our time during the 60`s where there were catholic cathechist volunteers that goes to every household teaching the most basic doctrines and holy practices for lay catholics which cannot be denied is still the dominating religion as far as population is concerned in the Philippines There absence had greatly contributed to the deterioration of the basic good manners and right conduct of the populace The population in general of the present day today had placed God and His house as the last recourse to go whenever they are in deep shit The seventh day of the week which is Sunday should be declared as the first day of the week among the christians thereby placing God first before anything else In short the majority of the christian Filipinos are just professing to be one but not true in their hearts and mind

This is a great way to predict the future of our country: we get more foreign investors, our educated people are sent abroad since they can speak English let alone qualify for most jobs, the uneducated will work in subhuman conditions for the aforementioned foreigners (just like in China!), and we’ll be left with an uneducated mob that will barely qualify for a citizenry, in effect we’ll have the richest and most powerful running this country with millions loosely held by a leash, but sufficient enough that they can use this mob to terrorize anyone with a brain who understands what is happening.

Can’t we, at the very least, stop kissing the Vatican’s ass and anticipate this problem by making a good number of the people here sterile? The DOH should be the premier agency in this government so it can carry out whatever is necessary to screen the genepool ultimately resulting in a race of biologically smarter and less-impulsive individuals that turn out as virtuous citizens.

But then again, of course this won’t happen, because if it did, the vicious clans who are in power now won’t have anything left in three or four generations. Weed out the clans first - don’t doctors amputate limbs so that gangrene won’t spread? In the smae manner we must weed out the corrupt and the undesirable before the whole nation is doomed to political, economic and social decay.

3 or 4 shifts in elementary and highschool in philippine education. is it deteriorating or not?

It would be nicer if you project it up to college education.

Social and Political Science classes should discuss current events and show them what NOT to emulate especially with regards to our trapo politicians, COMELEC, the Injustice Secretary, the Chief of Staff, and other corrupt people in governance. Discussions should be done in a point by point way and discussions on this between the student and parents should be encouraged. That will go a long way towards education on Right Conduct for all concerned.

who’s jinggoy without his father action star, who’s erap without the movies, they arent suppossed to be in politics, but in central Mindanao, joining or fighting against abusayafffff !!! God help the Philippines !!!

Pardon me.

I am a father of 5. My eldest, a 2nd yr HS and my youngest, a kindergarten.

GMRC? I tell you that even before my schooldays, it was my mother who first taught me how to respect others, being polite (the use of “po” and “opo”), how shut my mouth when elders were talking etc. It never occured to me that GMRC will be taught in school (i dont know it then) but the values that were taught and practiced at home were just simply expected of me, it was never compelled nor obligated though was chastised when not doing so.

I believed that i still have it till now and I’m doing my best to pass it on to my kids as much as I could. School is only a secondary learning venue but our home has the primacy of it all.

And now with our present Filipino family setting, with our most mothers are working (many abroad),same with working fathers like me. Who’s the one left behind with the kids? Yaya? TV? Videos? Computers? What manners can they get and we suppose to trust the dilapilated schools with more than 50 students per class to teach them how?

Good things starts at home same with manners and right conduct.
Just my humble opionion.

Good manners and as well as honesty must begin and teach first at home by parents while children are still young if not they grow up like a “trapo” when they are adult. If parents are power hungry and greedy then their offspring will follow them too.

I grew up in a very remote town in mindanao, in one of the towns of zamboanga peninsula. Not so long ago long before I started my elementary days, my parents, my elder brothers, my older cousins, titos, titas and even our neighbours never failed to teach us (the young ones) to always respect others. We were always taught not to do something that will make the other person feel bad, and most of all we were taught to respect those who are older than us (even if he/she was just a year older). When I started my elementary days, values, good manners and right conduct were always part of the teachings in school…and reinforced at home. I never skipped sunday mass…and never skipped the angelous prayer at 6PM with my cousins…I remember, it was a mortal sin in our family and relatives not to go to mass or for us kids..not to attend the angelous prayer at 6.

Inspite of all the hardships during that time, I never felt that thing they called ¨emptiness¨

My mother was a teacher during that time, but I never thought of her not being there when me and my siblings needed her. My Dad was a frustrated politician, never won in all the political race he joined into…for the fact that he didnt have the money…all he had with him was his honesty and sincerity to serve.

These values, I still have them until now. And it helped me a lot in doing my job, dealing with my team mates and those working under me.

Nowadays, I could say, things have changed. Other people no longer have the right to discipline your children…and when somebody does, the father flares up and gets back to that person…

I dont have kids yet, and hopefully, when I do, I will be able to impart to them the same discipline, the same values that were imparted in me during my younger days…

Good manners and right conduct, i believe is still the best thing we can give to our children…

Good manners and right conduct in Philippine schools? By golly, wait till you see how Junior High Kids treat their teachers and school administors in the US!

Thats why we are the Philippines and not the US…hopefully our HS students will not reach the point where they resort to shooting other students in school campus like some HS students in the US do.

In the States, they are obsessed with deleting the traces of God in everything.
When you leave God out of the picture, what do you get but primeval chaos and disorder! Should it even surprise us that their criminals are now coming from the ranks of babies?

if you visit schools in bicol I’m sure everybody will be amazed, students there are great specially the students in legaspi 6:00 in the morning they are ready to clean their surroundings. at 7:10 they’re ready for their first subject…………