SONA of President Benigno S. Aquino III
President Benigno S. Aquino III delivered his fourth State Of The Nation Address (SONA) on July 22, 2013 at the Batasang Pambansa in the joint session of the 16th Congress.And his SONA will not be complete without the mention about the EDUCATION.Especially about the K-12 program.
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 oportunities 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."
I am happy about this SONA of Pres.Aquino because as a student,we are happy that we have a school that is complete in school materials like the books,chairs and a good classroom.Specially the books,that we are using for our class and to further more understand the lesson.And I like the K-12 program to be implemented even we are not part of it.It is good for the next generation to have this so that after they are graduated from high school,they can work as a professional even they are not graduated in college.About the parents who do not want this to be implemented because of financial problem,they should because it can help them when they will graduate.
And I salute our President Benigno Aquino and Brother Armin Luistro for this.For they give solution about this problem that have past from generation to generation and were stop by them.And I hope from now on they will inherit this by the next generation.Thank you very much Sir.And I do appreciate this thing you've done......
