Education mindsets at school opening
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| Larry Faraon, OP |
Thanks to the mainstream media, Monday’s school opening littered with the usual chronic negating mindsets such as the perennial lack of classrooms, lack of teachers, lack of books and instructional materials, the usual scapegoat for the low quality basic learning our public education system provides our students, in particular to the ever marginalized in our society. These mindsets continue to thrive as if unending.
Even the proposed implementation of the K-12 basic education system, comprising kindergarten, six years of elementary, four years of junior high school and two years of senior high will never make one single step ahead since the proposal would further bury the mindset into the consciousness of the poverty-enlaced Filipino as additional crosses to carry. With all the K-12 program’s noble objectives of maximizing our basic education to be more foundational, integrative, competitive, responsive and practical, still the K-12 would be perceived as simply a reinforcement of the mindsets of our people and the system itself.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110612com7.html
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