Ex-CAR youth leader abets school miscellaneous fees scrapping

August 22, 2020 Headlines

Former Cordillera youth leader Timmy Mondiguing sees no advantage in having the K- 12 program of the Department of Education (DepEd)while also hoping that said agency and the Commission on Higher Education (CHeD) to waive miscellaneous fees imposed on students.
Mondiguing, a former student leader and PDP stalwart, wishes that CHEd and DepEd should start studying the waiving or reducing athletic, audio visual, cultural, dental and medical, library, laboratory, and other miscellaneous fees.
He said: “Every Filipino, not only those who are well-off, has the right to quality and affordable has the right to quality and affordable education, as enshrined in our Constitution.”
For the past years I still don’t see the advantages of having this K12 nor have felt it. To me the additional 2years is such a waste. I appeal to my partmyates to review the K12 law. As a former student leader and PDP stalwart, Mondiguing wishes that CHED and DEPED should start studying the waiving or reducing athletic, audio visual, cultural, dental and medical, library,laboratory, nd other miscellaneous fees.
Mondiguing questioned the wisdom of continuing with the DepEd’s K to 12 program that has been a financial burden to most Filipino households since its inception several years back. He added that the program, though with noble intentions, is not fit for a Third World Nation like the Philippines where many of its people live barely above the poverty threshold and are hard put in sending their children to school.
“I appeal to Congress that they seriously look into DepEd’s K to 12 program which this representation humbly believes adds to the burden to the majority of our countrymen who can barely meet he basic necessities of their household,” Mondiguing stressed.
Adding two more years in a child’s education whose parents can hardly afford it is anti-poor since it engenders greater chances of dropping- out or not completing even a high school education, Mondiguing pointed out.
“Besides, the promise that those finishing grade 12 can already apply for a job is generally unfulfilled since the vast majority of local employers are averse in hiring high school graduates. Not even n government offices will it meet the qualification of a lowest clerk position,” he added.