Philippines teachers outraged over ‘politicking’ in school learning

Philippine Vice President Leni Robredo, presidential prospect for the 2022 Philippine elections, speaks through a campaign rally in Quezon Metropolis, Metro Manila, Philippines, February 13, 2022. REUTERS/Lisa Marie David/File Image

MANILA, April 8 (Reuters) – The Philippines education and learning ministry arrived below fire from teachers on Friday around a discovering module that contained adverse content material about presidential applicant Leni Robredo, and praise for incumbent Rodrigo Duterte, together with a bogus endorsement from Britain’s queen.

In one on the internet module, college students age 17-18 have been required to detect spelling, grammar and content material mistakes from a sample of news headlines, and detect statements that ended up “unsubstantiated generalisations”, all of which involved opposition chief Robredo.

The module, which was established in 2020, started out circulating on social media on Thursday, just more than four weeks absent from a presidential election.

Duterte is not working for re-election but has a bitter rivalry with Robredo, who has been crucial of his government’s pandemic response and efficiency of his bloody war on medication.

ACT Instructors Partylist, a congressional team representing lecturers, expressed outrage over the learning substance and mentioned lecturers had struggled enough from two yrs of pandemic constraints on facial area-to-facial area discovering.

“Demanding adherence to the procedures and safeguards in the production of modules will give justice to them and will make certain that the people’s taxes indeed go to excellent education instead of shoddy educating resources and politicking,” it mentioned in a assertion.

Education Secretary Leonor Briones said the module experienced not passed the standard evaluation method and had considering that been withdrawn.

In a textual content concept she reported authorities also ended up “exerting all endeavours to alert academics against collaborating in partisan politics”.

Other exercise routines contained estimates that pupils wherever needed to analyze for accuracy, reliability and reasonableness, which include just one about Duterte purportedly by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, expressing “Filipinos are quite privileged to have him”.

Robredo on Friday mentioned training authorities need to not publish information that “would poison people’s minds”.

Reporting by Neil Jerome Morales Enhancing by Martin Petty

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