Filipino Students Return to Class After Holiday Hiatus
Today (Monday, January 07, 2008) marks the official return of students to their classes here in the Philippines after a long holiday hiatus.
Parents once again are faced with the challenges of sustaining their children’s education starting from daily allowance. It is this period that is most difficult for parents since the holiday season is tantamount to nothing but expenditures.
With some 20 million students back to school, I was able to observe that students and teachers alike are disorientated since the three-week break still has its aftershocks. My wife and I roamed around schools in Laoag City to see how things are going on and most teachers are still not in the mood to hold classes. Most of them required their students to clean up the room, the garden, the school canteen and others. When I was an elementary school pupil, my teachers usually assigned to me the garden since I love gardening and I did not complain a bit about the tasks involved in that area. It was a great time of my life since my childhood involved fewer worries and with more time to play.
However, for the modern-day school children, most of them don’t pay heed to their teachers anymore when they are assigned tasks like cleaning the room. While it’s true that in most western countries, pupils and students are not usually burdened to clean parts of the school, here in the Philippines, this practice is just common. I was only wondering how stubborn school children are nowadays which is an evidence of diminishing values unlike during our time when the teacher is treated as a surrogate parent and whose orders were always followed. Maybe these are the changes of our times, changes that I believe are not for the better. I just wonder how they will all grow up to become responsible adults in the future.
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It is sad and alarming.
I do think that media has a lot to do with it.
Most TV channels no longer air decent and/or educational TV shows. (eg., Batibot, Flying House)
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It’s happening all over the world. If we could only turn back time and retain those good things. It must be the system that plays an important role to tha saddening changes. I just hope my pamangkins are leading the right way.
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Kastoy met ditoy Laoag, gayyem.
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hi jess, i do agree with you that nowaday kids are different from my time. During those days, teachers are respected and sometime feared at. They had the power to punish naughty kids and parents would be supportive. But now, kids like to talk back, skip classes, and fool around. Even parents are protecting their kids and sparing the rod. Then again, there are also sensible and responsible children.
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You remind me of my schoold days, forget about teachers, me too find at that time hard to go to school after long October winter Vacations
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