Groups of teachers and students on Thursday, May 11, expressed concerns about the appointment of VP and Education Secretary Sara Duterte as the co-vice chair of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC). | ManilaBulletin
Alliance of Concerned Teachers Philippines secretary general Raymond Basilio said that the group fears that with Duterte's appointment at the NTF-ELCAC, “her red-tagging activities will just get worse and will continue to undermine teachers’ freedom of association and human rights.”
In a separate statement, the National Union of Students of the Philippines said that the “witch-hunt of critical thinkers to worsen in schools” following NTF-ELCAC Duterte’s appointment. NUSP added that with Duterte, the incumbent Department of Education Secretary, at the helm of the “chief terror-tagging institution,” the “witch-hunt of critical thinkers in schools will be at an all-time high.”
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