Opposition senator Risa Hontiveros apparently would not give Vice
President elect Sara Duterte any honeymoon phase as she slams the idea of the
latter being the incoming head of the Department of Education.
Hontiveros is of the opinion that it would be better if an education
expert headed the Department of Education (Deped).
“I don’t know what the
incoming, the presumptive vice president’s track record is in education. I
would have guessed other education experts to helm that important department,”
Hontiveros said on ANC.
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The opposition senator
noted the DepEd receives the biggest cut of the national budget yearly and its
mandate is connected with combatting historical revisionism.
The new agency chief
will also be in charge of responding to educational issues caused by the
pandemic, Hontiveros said.
“Napakahalaga sana… na
ang hahawak ng education department—ang magpapatupad nung kaka-sponsor lang
namin sa Senado na Education Commission II, ang tutugon sa iba’t ibang
problemang sa ating namuong education crisis pre-pandemic up to during the
pandemic until now—ay isang education expert,” she said.
(It would've been
important that the education secretary— the one who will implement our
recently-sponsored Education Commission II, the one who will respond to various
problems in our looming education crisis from pre-pandemic until now—is an
education expert.)
The Alliance of
Concerned Teachers (ACT) meanwhile said it would have preferred if the new
DepEd secretary was an educator who understood the struggles of teachers.
"Hearing that [a]
non-education sector person is going to head the agency for the next 6 years,
medyo kinakabahan kami dito ‘no (we feel a bit nervous)," said ACT
Secretary General Raymond Basilio.
He said he had yet to
hear Duterte-Carpio's plans for the education sector, other than the
reinstatement of the mandatory military service for all Filipinos after they
turn 18 years old.
"I think
pinaka-least yan sa pinag-uusapan dapat eh," Basilio said in a separate
ANC interview.
(That should be the least
discussed.)
“Ang pinag-uusapan
natin, paano nga ba matutugunanan yung problema natin ng education crisis
natin, 'yung mga bata na hindi marunong magbasa, magsulat, 'yung facilities
natin na sira-sira, yung classroom mo na 'yung mga kisame babagsak na, 'yung
electric fan na ang bumibili ay mga teacher, 'yung mga teachers natin na
nagre-resign at nagtatrabaho abroad,” he added.
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