The
call was made and now its gaining more voices of support from lawmakers and
education officials.
During
the campaign period, Vice President and incoming Education Secretary Sara
Duterte-Carpio
Incoming Quezon City Rep. Arjo Atayde said Monday
the proposal is interesting but must be thoroughly reviewed to ensure the best
for the learners.
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“To be honest, noh, there [are] interesting pros
and cons to it. We have to look into it, we just started… If departments slowly
were actually meeting committees as a team, [in] Congress, hopefully, we would
come up with the right decision where the majority, or whatever it is that
people want and more than what they want, is what they need,” he said.
On Sunday, Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa vowed to
refile the bill seeking mandatory ROTC which he filed during the 18th Congress.
Dela Rosa said he was “willing to author a bill” in
line with the vice president's proposal.
“I
am willing to author such a bill na gusto nila, ‘yung version na gusto ni (that
they wanted, the version that is desired by) Vice President Inday Sara),” he
said
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian said he supports
Duterte’s goal as the program will “provide students with additional skills for
disaster and calamities response, and even in accidents.”
Commission on Higher Education Chairperson Prospero
“Popoy” De Vera III said last week he was “generally supportive” of having ROTC
at the university level.
“Remember I was an ROTC officer when I was a student
at UP, and I know on a personal level how the training and discipline that I
got from the ROTC officer helped me develop myself when I continued and left
university,” he said.
However, he said they would have to wait for
lawmakers to officially come up with a statement on their version.
“We’ll have to wait for the bill to be filed in
congress so that the commission can give its proper comments on the contents of
the bill, it’s a little bit early to comment without a copy of the actual bill
than is filed, but as a general principle I support the ROTC at the university
level,” he added.
VP Duterte said she is hopeful that mandatory ROTC
will be part of the legislative agenda of the incoming administration, under
President-elect Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.
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