A state of calamity might need to be declared for our educational system. All the signals point to that.
We find ourselves in the bottom ranks in all international surveys on the quality of education. The study conducted by the Program for International Student Assessment show our students performing poorly in nearly all areas, from numeracy to reading comprehension. A comparative study on human capital shows us at the bottom. Another study on creative thinking also ranks our students near the bottom among the core ASEAN economies.
South Korea and Japan have long-established reputations for educational quality. Their educational institutions provided the highly skilled workforce that enable their industries to compete on a global scale. A search is currently under way to choose a successor to Sara Duterte at the helm of our Department of Education. We hope this will be a rigorous search to find an educational leader who may rapidly repair a system with a yawning learning deficit.It is probably indicative of the national morale that more and more Filipinos appear drawn to games of chance rather than to building careers based on skills.
Like jueteng or masiao, bingo does not come across as a form of gambling. The fact, however, is that it could be as lucrative as the others. Some bingo games have stakes reaching millions of pesos. The reputation risk for bingo operators is high. If something as seemingly innocent as bingo becomes the object of manipulation by unscrupulous people, the business will lose its customers.
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