Is This Quality Education?

 

                This pandemic caused the schools to be shut down. Homes became classrooms, and students became teachers for themselves. But the question is, "Is this Quality Education?" (emphasis on the Quality Education).

                Each student doesn't share the same pace in learning. Instead of giving out two units per week, why not give only one? Too much tasks, too much stress for us youth to handle to the point that we prioritize academics more than our health. Two units per week filled with several tasks, to be passed after only a week. It's hard. We're not learning anymore, we're just trying to pass outputs on time. Youth are our country's hope but will there still be hope?

                Youths are slowly disappearing, one by one. They are committing suicide because of stress and frustrations caused by modules and online classes. Education is killing us. Education is killing the country's hope.

                There's no quality education during the pandemic. Why are we doing this? For what? For our future? How can surgeons perform a successful operation in the future when there is no ACTUAL practice and demonstration?

                Do not pacify us because our opinions matter. It’s us who are learning, not you. We are experiencing the struggles of this modality of learning FIRSTHAND. We’re not opposing the idea of modular and online classes because we’re lazy, instead, we are opposing these ideas because we’re struggling. We're not trying to fight COVID, we're just adapting to this way of living.

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Economic Growth as a Key to a Much More Resilient Country

 

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              The capacity to respond to difficult conditions is called resiliency. Having a high degree of resilience means a person's greater ability, either because of their character (inheritance) or resources (learned), to resolve complex circumstances. Effective stress management is demonstrated by a resilient person. They also demonstrate high self-esteem and a good ability not to get upset, in turn. Resilience is a very positive trait since it helps a person to use negative experiences as reinforcement.

                In order to be a resilient country, we should look into our economy. Instead of using the country’s funds for unnecessary projects, such as the dolomite sand in Manila Bay, why don’t they just give it to the people who are in need? What is the white sand for? It’s just a waste of money. What I’m saying is that they should invest more on things that will make our country’s resilience improve.

                Economy is not the only factor towards a resilient country, preparedness is also a factor. The situation has the ability to cause uncertainty and confusion when any catastrophe occurs, whether it is a hurricane, flood, earthquake, tornado or fire. Successful emergency preparedness leads to reducing some of the chaos created by the unforeseen crisis.

                The country’s chain supply is also important to our resiliency. Management of the supply chain is considered a country's backbone as it handles numerous significant issues such as economic growth and environmental problems that have an impact on the DRMM’s strategy.

                Based on my research, the top resilient countries has good reactions in economy and natural disasters. I believe that we should focus on our economy, for us to be resilient. We should also focus on the citizens because we can’t be resilient if there is no teamwork in preparing for disasters.