SCRIPT FOR EDUCATIONAL AGENDA

The COVID-19 pandemic has created the largest disruption of education systems in history.
Thus, this crisis has stimulated innovation within the education sector and so distance learning
solutions were developed. We have also been reminded of the essential role of teachers and that
governments and other key partners have an ongoing duty of care to education personnel.
However, the COVID-19 crisis and the unparalleled education disruption is far from over.
Despite that, a lot of schools nationwide, for instance Thailand, had decided to reopen and thanks
to their capable government they had passed through the crisis. As for the other countries that are
still struggling to cope, especially the Philippines, uhm regardless, DEPED pushed through the
opening of school year last Monday, fifth of October year 2020. So if ma’am Alyza and I were to
create educational agenda in the pursuit of quality education and wellness of all amidst
pandemic, here’s ours.
So our first agendum is to 1. SUPPRESS TRANSMISSION OF THE VIRUS AND PLAN
THOROUGHLY FOR THE OPENING OF S.Y. 2020-2021

What I meant here is that we are not the ones who gives protocols to people in general but as
stated in my slide on your screen, if we will not have actual or face-to-face class we can smother
the transmission of the infection to control public or neighborhood episodes. And that the plans
for this school year should be thought of thoroughly. Did the DepEd consider the wellbeing of
all? Of its constituents? Of the students? What I am trying to argue in here is that there should be
a comprehensive plan man lang sana. And in planning they should have tuned in to the voices of
all concerned. Dito nga po sa klase natin especially those who are in DepEd they had shared their
problems and concerns, but we have not come up with a single solution for them. And those
problems and concerns raised are clearly evidences that the plan for this S.Y is far from
comprehensive and yet here is sec briones who had the audacity to celebrate victory and she
declares victory over COVID19. I was flabbergasted because she doesn’t know how much
struggle the teachers had to go through and actually some are still struggling mentally,
emotionally, and financially. Therefore, thorough and critical planning is a must. For our second
agendum ma’am aly?

For our fourth agendum: 4. REIMAGINE EDUCATION AND ACCELERATE CHANGE

IN TEACHING AND LEARNING

The enormous endeavors made in a brief timeframe to react to the stuns to education advise us
that change is conceivable. We ought to take advantage of this to discover better approaches to
address the learning crisis and achieve a lot of arrangements recently viewed as troublesome or
difficult to execute. We should focus to the front of our endeavors:

1. center around tending to learning misfortunes and forestalling dropouts, especially the
marginalized group. Ah, learning misfortunes these are the students who really cannot access
education at all and commonly these students are coming from the marginalized group. As for
the dropouts, for the evidence, I have been seeing posts by the students that they dropped out
because they cannot continue anymore due to various factors.

2. uphold the showing calling and educators' status – this means the support for the teaching
profession and teachers’ readiness

3. extend the meaning of the privilege to instruction to incorporate network; eliminate hindrances
to availability; reinforce information and observing of learning; fortify the articulation and
adaptability across levels and types of education and training. This means we have to expand the
definition of the right to education to include connectivity and remove barriers to connectivity
and strengthen the flexibility of education. Therefore, through all of this, ma’am aly and I think
that some of the major problems that we have now might be addressed. To achieve this, we will
be led to our fifth agendum…

Which is SECURING EDUCATION FINANCING

The question that we have is How much do governments spend on education?

According to the report of Jodee Agoncillo, Undersecretary for Finance, Annalyn Sevilla, said
that they were not able to get the P65-billion budget so they had to adjust The P65 billion is now
being considered for DepEd’s 2021 funding proposal. Imagine next year pa raw po.

But Sevilla added that the DepEd may get the P4-billion budget as “additional funds” under the
Bayanihan to Recover as One Act, or the Bayanihan 2, once approved.

“But even if the Congress approves of it, without the DBM allocating budget, it will remain
unfunded,” she said.
So I do not also get po why the government does not satisfy the needs in the education sector
where in fact, this is the time when they should double or triple the budget to think na this year
po 2.22 trillion ang international debt and this is set to become the biggest-ever foreign
borrowings for a single year.

And why is financing education important?  Because this is to provide children and youth with
quality education, which prepares them for active participation in society as well as enabling
them to make a living.