Are Philippine schools ready for back-to-school?
Come mid-June, the school year is about to resume in the Philippines. These days, students are checking off their lists like crazy, and buying notebooks, pens, crayons, pad papers. They would be hunting for used books or borrowing from older friends and neighbors. Parents would be going to Divisoria to buy school uniforms for their students. After a long hot, usually boring summer, students are just itching to go back to school and catch up with their classmates and friends.
But are the schools ready? The Philippine Council for Investigative Journalism looked at several schools around the nation, and assessed …read more
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