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[RHB]

Well with an MS Ed in education, I feel qualified to comment. I live here three years have volunteered in the local schools. I have a step daughter and son in school here. I fear for their future. The schools are not preparing these kids for the future as OFW's. Silliman University is OK and maintains a standard, some of the rest are diploma mills, with corrupt teachers, and no oversight.
Educated and intelligent are not neccessarily mutually inclusive.

Anyone who stands on their head to laud the education system here, clearly doesn't know what they are talking about.

Private elementary and secondary schools can have decent cirriculii, the public schools are indeed a joke. No computer skills are taught. Kids entering college are not prepared in most cases. Projects in college often are copy paste internet exercises.

A very arrogant attitude not give a damn I might add. come here and help out instead of sitting in your comfy UK house.




I hope to help out andteach a few courses next semester at a local university, and maybe make adifference.

[ervenescence]

Well with an MS Ed in education, I feel qualified to comment. I live here three years have volunteered in the local schools. I have a step daughter and son in school here. I fear for their future. The schools are not preparing these kids for the future as OFW's. Silliman University is OK and maintains a standard, some of the rest are diploma mills, with corrupt teachers, and no oversight.
Educated and intelligent are not neccessarily mutually inclusive.

Private elementary and secondary schools can have decent cirriculii, the public schools are indeed a joke. No computer skills are taught. Kids entering college are not prepared in most cases. Projects in college often are copy paste internet exercises.

3 years of being there in Philippines is not enough for you to criticise the system, and even have the agrression to say that school in provinces are such a joke.

Anyone who stands on their head to laud the education system here, clearly doesn't know what they are talking about.

you are humiliating yourself

A very arrogant attitude not give a damn I might add. come here and help out instead of sitting in your comfy UK house.

I don't mean the kind of education there, I mean the bloody tracheotomy word that I can't be bothered with. The thing is, you only encountered one student you been asking question about the word and it happened that she was puzzled. Then you started pointing that schools in provinces are rubbish. Be specific!

FYI, even if I have a comfy house, and hubby has got a great job here. I never think of just doing nothing, sitting pretty, and spending all his wages to shopping. Im still working my ass off and choose not to be a leech. And if I choose to be a madame, and be sitting all my life in my comfy house? so what? the hell you care?
And oh yes im helping my lil brothers and sisters in there, its me who send them to school. I don't need to be there to help, they know that they got my support.

I hope to help out andteach a few courses next semester at a local university, and maybe make adifference.

Good for you. Goodluck! Hope the Philippines people will recognise your effort in the future. Who knows? and they might even put a statue of you in every school provinces.

[RHB]

3 years of being there in Philippines is not enough for you to criticise the system, and even have the agrression to say that school in provinces are such a joke.



you are humiliating yourself



I don't mean the kind of education there, I mean the bloody tracheotomy word that I can't be bothered with. The thing is, you only encountered one student you been asking question about the word and it happened that she was puzzled. Then you started pointing that schools in provinces are rubbish. Be specific!

FYI, even if I have a comfy house, and hubby has got a great job here. I never think of just doing nothing, sitting pretty, and spending all his wages to shopping. Im still working my ass off and choose not to be a leech. And if I choose to be a madame, and be sitting all my life in my comfy house? so what? the hell you care?
And oh yes im helping my lil brothers and sisters in there, its me who send them to school. I don't need to be there to help, they know that they got my support.



Good for you. Goodluck! Hope the Philippines people will recognise your effort in the future. Who knows? and they might even put a statue of you in every school provinces.

how much of that cash are you reinvesting in the Philippines? other than your family. A total of 13 billion US dollars is sent back to the philippines every year by OFW's, 10 % of the PGNP if you know what that is dear. Where is it going?

The educational infrastructure here is capital starved, the Dep Ed allocates it's scarce resources by political means not by need. Students in the public schools have to pay for an electric fan for teacher, all project material costs, are forced to photo copy books as there are none for most of the tudents here, even in the City schools, I have done my research.

The Universities require payment for every special project, or in service, and students are required to pay up to 200 pesos (a lot for many) to attend a recreational concert or activity. If they do not, it goes against their academic record. They lack an adequate number qualified teachers.

Your out of touch, or just have forgotten how it is here.

[ervenescence]

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Your out of touch, or just have forgotten how it is here.

Nope, im never out of touch. Im always keeping in touch , neither forgotten of what is it like there.

RHB, if you think that education system in PH is deteriorating then help out. Don't just blabber and moaned about it.

[aromulus]

Ok.....

Followed this thread for a while, and I personally think that it may lead to some kind of confrontation...

Now that you all agree to disagree... Can we drop it...???

Sige na....

[RHB]

Yeperdoo, as they say in someplace west of the UK.
Anyway, not to add fuel to the fire, let me say to ervenescence, that indeed I do plan to help, have indeed helped already, and recently have had a meeting with the presidents of two universities here in Dumaguete. Despite the intention to help and improve, the realities are as stated in many, read not all, but many places.
You can't blame students, the situation is not static, and there are already several foreign teachers helping out here in both primary and university programs. My goal is to fit in to the undergraduate education program which I feel comfortable teaching.
They need more rigor in certain programs, the education program being the seat of all future issues, needs improving first. English skills are most important, computer literacy is lagging behind in public schools, and critical thinking skills are nearly absent here.

carry on

[Alan]

I also intend to do some teaching here in Dumaguete (if I am allowed to.)

As I have said before on this site, teaching is, in my opinion, the best job in the world and so if I can help some children here in my adopted home town, it will make me happy.

Al.

[ervenescence]

Then good for you RHB, I hope theres some more good people like you. See the problems and willing to help.

btw, my mother is a teacher in one of the local school in the province, I know shes a good teacher, she gave all her time to her work. Her unit hasn't got an electric fan for her to cool down. She never ask her students to pay for something just for her own benifit.

Peace out

[LadyJ]

Sige na....

Nice to see you're learning tagalog