Brother Armin opposed MR. EXPOSE Amb. Ernesto Maceda 06/29/2010

Brother Armin opposed

MR. EXPOSE Amb. Ernesto Maceda 06/29/2010 The appointment to the Department of Education top post of Brother Armin Luistro, De La Salle University president, premiere leader of the Black and White Movement, and provider of sanctuary to ZTE-NBN star witness Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada comes as no surprise since his name has been among the first floated for a Cabinet job. But the first surprising opposition came from the DepEd’s employees association who asked Brother Armin to resign from his religious position citing a potential conflict of interest. Certain questions must necessarily be asked: 1) Are we going against the Constitutional provision on separation of church and state? 2) Will Brother Armin’s appointment encourage more ambitious religious leaders to be active in partisan causes in the future? Is that good? 3) Considering that his background is purely and fully in private education, will he be able to adjust to understand the different culture in the public school system? Recall the failure of Fr. Ed “Among” Panlilio as governor of Pampanga. 4) How will he deal with congressmen and other politicians whose support he needs to get more funds for the programs of DepEd? 5) Will the syndicates at DepEd run rings around a novice in government and continue their money making contracts? They flourished during the incumbency of Brother Andrew Gonzales as DepEd secretary. 6) Will he be able to stand up to the demands of ACT, Courage, DepEdea and other activist teacher/employee organizations? 7) Will he be able to solve the perennial classrooms, teachers, school desks and textbooks shortage? 8) Will he be able to arrest the decline in the quality of education in the country? Will he add pre-school and grade 7 to the elementary schools as they have in La Salle? 9) What will be his stand on sex education? Will he scrap it as reported?... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100629com4.html

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