Mandatory ROTC and national training program was one of the 19 priority legislations enumerated by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. during his first State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday, July 25.
Amid concerns and criticisms of the Marcos administration’s proposal to make the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program mandatory in Grades 11 and 12, the Department of Education on Wednesday, July 27, said that a law needs to be passed first before such a proposal could be implemented.
He added that it was still premature to entertain any argument about the program’s implementation because Congress has yet to pass a bill for its implementation. Mandatory ROTC and national training program was one of the 19 priority legislations enumerated by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. during his first State of the Nation Address on Monday, July 25.Mandatory ROTC, bureaucracy rightsizing, e-government, and 16 other priority Marcos bills listed
Duterte’s spokesman Reynold Munsayac said that the Office of the Solicitor General will be tasked to determine the legality and constitutionality of the program after concerns were raised that it will violate the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, a protocol to which the Philippines is a party.
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