One thing I remember about Angara – the father, Edgardo, not the son: there was no running water in the restrooms of the College of Arts and Sciences when I started my academic life at the University of the Philippines in Diliman. Until Angara became UP president.
Running water in restrooms is no trivial matter, especially for us women who can’t simply pee by the wall, lamppost or bush. Health experts will tell you that the availability of clean tap water is also no trivial matter for public schools, where handwashing is advocated as a basic practice for good health. Obviously, learning is impaired when a child is sickly.
Their problem is worsened if the teacher herself suffers from undernourishment, lacks sufficient training, endures the discomfort of restrooms without running water, and whose fondest dream is to find a job outside the Philippines. “As far as my view of government service is concerned, the most important service that government must provide to its people is a good education,” Marcos said last May.
Sonny Angara has said he wants quality education to be accessible to all. His marching order from BBM is to improve the performance of Filipino high school students in the Program for International Student Assessment or PISA.
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