“The reinstatement of mandatory ROTC solves none of the current issues that plague our country, especially issues that Filipino students face under our education system,” said Samahan ng Progresibong Kabataan SPARK National Coordinator John Lazaro said in a statement.
SPARK reiterated the “irrelevance” of reinstating mandatory ROTC in response to the findings of a recent Social Weather Stations survey noting that 42 percent of adult Filipinos think ROTC should remain optional and 22 percent think that it should not be in the curriculum.
“The central data that this and the other recent surveys still miss, however, are the primary stakeholders of mandatory ROTC,” she added. Reyes also noted that “the lack of interest shown by these officials pushing for mandatory ROTC to listen to the voices of students only goes to show that it is only them who will benefit the most out of this bill.”
SPARK has been opposing the reinstatement of mandatory ROTC since the administration of former president Rodrigo Duterte.
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