Ang Pagtanggal ng Pambansang Wika mula sa mga Aralin dahil lamang sa K to 12 program ng CHED

Ang Pagtanggal ng Pambansang Wika mula sa mga aralin
dahil lamang sa K to 12 program ng CHED
ni Apolinario Villalobos

Umaabot na sa sukdulan ang pagkasira ng sistema ng edukasyon ng Pilipinas dahil sa balak ng CHED na pagtanggal ng Pambansang Wika mula sa mga aralin ng mga estudyante dahil lamang sa pagpapatupad ng K to 12 program na tinututulan ng mga magulang, kabataan, at pati na ng maraming titser.

Nakakagulat ito dahil nawawala na yata sa porma ang mga namumuno ng ahensiyang dapat ay naghuhubog ng kaisipan ng mga kabataang Pilipino. Bakit isasakripisyo ang Pambansang Wika na dapat ay ituring na pinakadiwa ng ating kultura? Kung papansinin, marami pa ngang dapat matutunan ang mga estudyante na sa katigasan ng ulo ay ni hindi mabigkas nang tama ang letrang “R” kung magsalita sa Pilipino, dahil pinipilit ng mga ito ang bigkas-Amerikano, kaya pilit na pinapalambot ang nabanggit na letra.

Dapat ay tutukan din ng CHED ang kahinaan sa pagtuturo ng mga paaralan na hindi man lang matawag ang pansin ng mga estudyanteng lumilihis sa kagandahang asal dahil din sa hindi na nila pagturo ng tradisyonal na “Good Manners and Right Conduct”.

Ang elementarya ay napakakritikal na yugto sa paglinang ng pagkatao ng isang estudyante. Ang yugtong ito ay dapat matatag dahil dito itutuntong ang isa pang yugto na kinapapalooban ng mga dapat matutunan sa kolehiyo upang mabuo ang kaalaman tungo sa napiling propesyon. At, ang lubos na kaalaman sa Pambansang Wika ay magpapatibay sa pagkatao ng isang estudyante bilang Pilipino.

Ang nakakabahala pa sa inaasal ng CHED ay ang matunog na kawalan ng kahandaan ng mga paaralan upang maipatupad ng maayos ang pinipilit na K to 12 program. Dahil lang sa panggagaya sa ibang bansa, asahan na ang malaking bulilyaso ng CHED – gagastos ng malaki sa isang programang walang kahihinatnan.

Life and its Trimmings

Life and its Trimmings
by Apolinario Villalobos

Life
Life is a blessing from God and manifested in many forms generally called “creations”, with man as one of them – intelligent and all. Some men are happy to be alive, while some blame God for such blessing.

Man
He is the premier creation of God with free will and intelligence. In his veins flows the blood of life where the DNA floats – story book of what he is and will be. His intelligence made him think that he can be another God. And, because of this pride and greed, he is committing a self-destruction that he deserves.

Misery
It is the result of man’s greed suffered by the weaker of his kind. The world is overflowing with it.

Civilization
It is the manifestation of man’s struggle to live decently by covering his body, tame the wild creatures and utilize the earth for his subsistence, produce tools for protection and domestic use, kill others for the expansion of his domain, and defy God that he cannot see.

Religion
Foremost, it is an invisible line that separates the peoples of the world. More potent than culture in setting differences, it is also the garden from where sprouts various devotions with hideous faces. Man’s desire for power and insatiable greed created it.

Progress
It is the fruit of man’s struggle for a better life. It is a beautifully-designed scheme for man’s self-annihilation, with all its modern synthetic drugs and food, bombs and guns, and most specially, craving for endless comfort with its deadly undertone.

Corruption
It is the essence of politics and government systems. It gives impetus to the ambitious people with a “noble aspiration to serve”. It also gives zest to those who are already in position and with power to “serve the people”.

Opportunity
It glitters with a promise of wealth for the strong with evil mind, but burdens the weak to the extent of death.

Politics
It is the breeding ground for corruption where intellectuals become expert in sowing miseries among helpless constituents.

Government
It is the extensive umbrella that gives shade of comfort and security to the corrupt who profess to protect the welfare of the people.

Law
It is the legal tool of the vicious and learned people in their practice of corruption and exploitation.

Education
It provides knowledge to man based on historic principles and guidance designed by well-intent intellectuals of the old. But, abused by modern-day hypocrite agencies and abusive institutions, that pledge their never-ending exploitation of the youth.

Poverty
It is the state of being deprived of the basic necessities of life, resulting from exploitation or choice.

Wealth
It refers to either the spiritual or material gain of man. When used in the right way, it makes the man benevolent, but if used otherwise, it makes him evil…the world has more of the latter.