Horrors! 6 of 1,000 pass high school entry test

[fakesaint]

Kita niyo ba yung special episode ng Imbestigador kagabi? Yung isang province, ni classroom wala, sa labas nag tuturo yung teacher. yung bata umiiyak pag di nakakapasok ng school... sayang naman. What would the next generation of pinoys be like without proper education?

yes, follow up ata nung last week episode na yng mga text books na gamit nila, 4:1 na nga e mali mali pa....

[mazdamazda]

Do you guys know "world vision foundation"? they accept donation of P450/month to send a child to school..I invite you to become part of us..

eto po ang website nila: http://www.worldvision.org.ph/

instead of just complaining about our gov't and everything, we should divert all of these to more constructive ways.

dito lang sa office, yung Children's Library project ni Gokongwei, out of all the employees here - wala pa kaming 10 na nag respond to donate.

BG - create tayo ng new topic for world vision...

[niky]

That's a good idea!

At our school, we do our best to help our employees in terms of education... medyo ok nga ang kalagayan ng mga mahirap ng employees namin (comparatively) kasi may libre and/or subsidized na education and medical care... but not many companies have the resources for this (nice to have a hospital and a school in the same place). We also do outreach programs, but it's a shame you can't reach everyone.

If you want to help in other ways, there are also various organizations that run tutoring centers and schools for charity that are in need of volunteer teachers. Check them out.

[nicolodeon]

ONE THING you guys have to know about public schools is that the system just doesn't work.

The major problem is that the cumulative effects of mismanagement in early grades, non-participation of parents in education, and dropping out and absenteeism due to poverty show up by the time the students are "elevated" to grade 6. Many students are merely "promoted" to the next grade, no matter how poor their ability, because the school is overloaded or the child is too old to stay in that grade level. It's very sad.

And some of our so-called "better" private-schools aren't any better in terms of academics...

Maybe this holds true for pubic (and private) school system for the last 5-10 years. In my time (this was like ages ago), this was not the case.

[orly_andico]

Pero going back, is that really our GDP?

i believe it's a CIA estimate and includes the underground economy (the untaxed part). The legal economy is abotu 40% to 50% of that value.

Kung ganun, it is so high and if that were the case, we should be debt-free and out of poverty by now (since we would only need 1/5th or 4 trillion pesos worth of that amount and the bad state of our poor country would be gone.)

Not really, because of the government's dismal taxation efficiency. But it does show that we're not as poor as we think we are.

Singapore only has 4 TIMES LESS than what we have but they are way way better than us in EVERY ASPECT!!!

According to the CIA, Singapore has a $120B GDP. But their population is ONE TWENTIETH (1/20) of ours. So their citizens collectively earn at least 5X as much as our citizens.

Corruption, tax evasion, tax collection inefficiencies, etc. but there could be more.
All in all, what happens next?

Corruption sucks, yes. But tax evasion sucks more. It's easy to blame the politicians because it's easier than looking at oneself.

[zidane21]

kawawa naman status ng education natin here sa 'pinas naging privilege na lang ang quality education while others are suffering sa poor facilities and 2nd-hand torn books at standing-room only classrooms ng public schools even some private schools (no puns intended)

pwede na tuloy tayong i-compare sa mga schools in poor African countries!