Davao City 1st District Rep. Paolo Duterte urges the House of Representatives to pass bills aimed at improving the education system, especially now that the K-12 system has been getting flak for allegedly not helping its graduates get good jobs.
released a statement signed by their president, Benedicta Du-Baladad, expressing alarm over the state of Philippine education today.
Paolo Duterte also stressed that passing the three bills would solve concerns about students not being well-equipped. Over the years, there have been several studies indicating that Filipino students — and not only K-12 graduates — have been lagging in educational rankings. In Southeast Asia alone, it was discovered that the reading and math skills of fifth-grade students in the Philippines were the second-worst, even behind war-torn Myanmar.
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