A CHAOTIC CLASSROOM

I was watching the news last night and there’s this “back to school” story that got me dismayed. June 6, 2011 was the official start of classes in the Philippines. In Batasan Hills National High School, an overwhelming number of students filled the school grounds during their flag ceremony. For its big school population, classes had to be conducted in two shifts. The first shift runs from 6 a.m. until 1 p.m., and the second at 1 p.m. until 8 p.m.

When I was still in high school, I never experienced having a disorganized classroom. Maybe because I studied in a private school where a classroom is composed of just 30 to 40 students and where the room is big, big enough not to let students sit on the floor. But then, I was disturbed by the fact that a lot of students in public schools in our country is suffering from a hot and congested classroom while they’re trying to learn. 80 to 90 students were being taught in just one room and almost 30% of them sat on the floor while the 10% were standing. A side from this, since they a lot of students, they can’t provide students decent and complete books that they need for the whole school year. In addition, the teacher finds a hard time teaching since it’s hard for the students to hear what their educator is talking about so they ended up almost losing their voice at the end of the day.

Question is, why is it for two months vacation, they haven’t built any additional classrooms? Every year, the Department of Education (DepEd) has their budget to at least improve what they have to improve, fix what they have to fix, and most of all, to give solution on the reoccurring problems that is transpiring on their respective schools.

Yes, students will say that it’s ok and they are used to it. But then, I believe it’ll be better if our government especially our president can focus on what’s going on with our education system, fix it and make it better for our youth and for them to be eager in studying well.