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STATUS OF PHILIPPINE EDUCATION SYSTEM

The 1987 Constitution guarantees the right to education of every Filipino. As per stated "The State shall protect and promote the right of all citizens to quality education at all levelS and shall take appropriate steps to make education accessible to all". Given this statement and assessing the current status of the Philippine Education system, you will begin to ask yourself, "Does the state really provide equal education to all?"

If we're going to study about the Philippine Education system, it offers Formal and Non-Formal systems. Formal education has a structure of 6+4+2+4 wherein there is a 6 years in primary, 4 years in Junior High School, 2 years in Senior High School and 4 years in College (for most courses). Those long years are the span or duration of education that a Filipino students must go through for him to have a Bachelor's Degree or to be called educated. Knowing this we can say that those long years involve time, hard work, effort and FINANCES. Lack of financial support is a big factor or hindrance for the Filipino students to finish their education. In Philippines, however, 1/4 of the population lies on below average marginal index or what we called Poor Families.

Based on that, I think we can have the idea of what is really the current status of Philippine Education System. Nowadays, whether we admit it or not. and even if the stakeholder (school, administrators and teachers) make a great effort to uplift the standard of education, still, the status is DETERIORATING or DEGRADING. Some of the manifestations or evidences are the following: a. Increase Drop-out Rates due to short or insufficient efforts to improve quality education. b. Inability to speak English of most of the Filipinos (knowing that it is one of the official language), this is due to lack of materials and manpower (teachers). c. Poor Performance in National and International Test, this can be caused by undernutrition status of the student and inadequate teaching because of Low Actual Spending of the fund for Education. d. Low education and skill levels of the poor, this is rooted from the corruption and ineffective policies of the government leaders. As I mentioned above, financial support is a great factor for a Filipino student to have a good education. Poor families cannot afford to study at universities with good standards since it needs a large amount of money to pay its tuition fee. Because of that, Filipino students will leave no choice but to skip or stop schooling.

So if you are going to ask me again, what is my stand or say about the current status of the Philippine Educational System, without a doubt I can say that it is leisurely deteriorating or degrading. As a teacher, it is very upsetting for me to know this, but I look at it as an eye opener to make small efforts and render quality education to my students. I hope that every Filipino (nationality not subject) teacher will also contribute their small efforts because when millions of small efforts unite a big result will occur. A big change in the Philippine educational system will occur.

And when it happens, we can say loud and proud that EDUCATION IS REALLY FOR ALL FILIPINOS.