{"id":4410,"date":"2011-03-06T22:24:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T03:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=4410"},"modified":"2011-03-06T22:24:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T03:24:45","slug":"lest-we-forget-chiz-escuderos-stupid-proposal-on-education-curriculum-reform-for-our-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/06\/lest-we-forget-chiz-escuderos-stupid-proposal-on-education-curriculum-reform-for-our-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Lest We Forget :: Chiz Escudero&#039;s Stupid Proposal on Education Curriculum Reform for our Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I can only cite myself as an example,magmula po nung natapos ako nung high<br \/>\ns c h o o l   h i n d i   k o   p a   n a g ami t   a n g   C a l c u l u s ,   h i n d i   k o   p a   h o   n a g ami t   a n d<br \/>\nTrigonometry, hindi ko pa ho nagamit and Algebra, iyung Geometry, sa bilyar ko<br \/>\nlang nagamit. At iyong mga ibang itinuturo ay marapat sigurong ituro sa kolehiyo<br \/>\nkung nais maging inhinyero ng isang bata. Iyong mga ibang itinuturo, marapat<br \/>\nsigurong ibigay na lamang nating sa kanila sa kolehiyo o bilang elective<br \/>\npagdating ng high school.<br \/>\nThis would effectively give more time to our children to spend with their<br \/>\nfamilies and perhaps and help them in whatever it is that they are doing to earn a<br \/>\nlivelihood. If by any chance we are able to reduce the curriculum by half, we would<br \/>\neffectively double the number of classrooms in a day and overnight because we<br \/>\ncan now use the classrooms twice over instead of simply being used once given the<br \/>\noverburdened curriculum that our children have. If only, Mr. Speaker, to propose<br \/>\nthe following, I think we can reduce the curriculum to perhaps five or six subjects,<br \/>\nnamely: Language, to include Filipino and English; Social Studies and History<br \/>\nboth of the world and our country; Math and Science; Computer and Good Manners<br \/>\nand Right Conduct. And I believe that we could develop our children holistically<br \/>\nin such a manner.<br \/>\nThis, however, is only a proposal. This is a suggestion for us to look into once<br \/>\nagain and study it. And we have made known our proposal to the Secretary of<br \/>\nEducation so that they could review this with a view of unburdening our students<br \/>\nat present<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I had difficulty finding this. If the congress needs help with their website I&#8217;d gladly volunteer to make it more searchable and reliable. If I wasn&#8217;t persistent enough I wouldn&#8217;t have been able to get the source document.<br \/>\n PDF HERE :<a href=\"http:\/\/www.congress.gov.ph\/download\/journals_13\/13th-3RS-02.pdf\"><br \/>\nIf I only had the time I know If I read through these I&#8217;ll be able to find more gems of law makers being less than enlightening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can only cite myself as an example,magmula po nung natapos ako nung high s c h o o l h i n d i k o p a n a g ami t a n g C a l c u l u s , h i n d i k o p a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/06\/lest-we-forget-chiz-escuderos-stupid-proposal-on-education-curriculum-reform-for-our-country\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lest We Forget :: Chiz Escudero&#039;s Stupid Proposal on Education Curriculum Reform for our Country&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-better-class-of-politician"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}