"Let us move on to education. Our goal is to raise the quality of learning that our children undertake, so that once they finish their schooling, they can seize the opportunities now opening up in society: accomplished. We have finally erased the backlog we inherited in books and chairs, and if Secretary Armin Luistro continues to demonstrate true grit, even the backlog we inherited in classrooms will also be erased this year. And there is even more good news: Now, we also have the ability to prepare for the additional needs that the implementation of the K to 12 program will require.
The problems that plagued Brother Armin in the DepEd are no laughing matter. Just think: one textbook used to be priced at 58 pesos; since he assumed office, the price of the exact same textbook has gone down to 30 pesos. What would have happened if we had been paying the proper price from the beginning? If we had saved the difference of 28 pesos for all the books bought, at five textbooks for each of the estimated 20.7 million students in our public school system, the equivalent would amount to almost 2.9 billion pesos. These savings alone could have funded our plans to repair and rehabilitate around 9,502 classrooms.
If Brother Armin didn’t have strength of will, he could have just left this culture of negligence in his agency for his successor to deal with. He could have also left the backlog, as well as the growing gap of needs because of the rising number of enrollees each year. But instead of being content, instead of saying, “This will do. My job is done,” Brother Armin will build even more chairs and classrooms, and will buy even more books, to ensure that even the needs in future years will also be met."
- According to the topic discussed by President Noynoy Aquino during his SONA.
(http://noypistuff.blogspot.com/2013/07/sona-2013-in-english-full-text-pnoys.html)
On that statement about the improvements of education quality it sounds interesting because there is now solution to what we are concerned with every now and then.
Regarding the backlogs, Sec. Armin Luistro said that this backlogs in books and chairs have been erased. And it's a big news because the students are now comfortable to read their books unlike before that every book every student had was ragged. And students can do their activities on their seats with well-built armchairs. So, the students are problem-free from backlogs now, they can study well now.
And regarding with the 28 pesos decrease of the book cost is a good news because if Br. Armin didn't have the strength of will, maybe we are still drained to book-cost buying. So, that 28 pesos saving, is very worth for the fund in repairing and rehabilitating school properties.
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