Photo from Maricel Herrera facebook account
DISMAYADO ang ilang kongresista sa plano na kasuhan ang guro sa Cavite na nagsapubliko ng paggamit ng palikuran bilang faculty room ng kanilang paaralan.
Sinabi nina ACT Representatives Antonio Tinio at France Castro na hindi dapat pagbantaan ang mga guro dahil sa pagsasabi ng totoong sitwasyon ng kanilang paaralan.
“Shortages in school facilities, learning resources, and teaching and non-teaching personnel has been a perennial problem of the public school system that our teachers and students have to face everyday,” ani Tinio.
Nagbanta ang principal ng Bacoor National High School na idedemanda si Maricel Herrera matapos nitong isapubliko ang paggamit ng banyo, corridor at ilalim ng hagdan bilang faculty room dahil nakakasira umano ito sa imahe ng eskuwelahan.
“Instead of solving the longstanding problem of shortages in facilities, Department of Education Secretary Leonor Briones herself blamed the teachers for using the comfort rooms as faculty rooms to be ‘more dramatic and touchy’.”
Si Herrera ay secretary general ng Alliance of Concerned Teachers sa Region 4A.
“Ang DepEd mismo ang sumisira sa imahe ng ahensya dahil sa dami ng mga kakulangan sa pasilidad ng mga paaralan na kanilang pinagtatakpan, hindi ang guro na naglalahad lang ng totoong kalagayan ng kanilang trabaho at ng mga bata.”
Dahil sa dami ng paper work ng mga guro dapat ay prayoridad din umano ang faculty room kung saan sila maaaring gumawa.
“Faculty rooms and other facilities both for students and teachers should be a necessity; they are not luxuries like what the principal of Bacoor National High School implied. In regions like the NCR and Davao with accredited unions and Collective Negotiation Agreements, the government even committed to provide teachers with faculty spaces. The needs of teachers in one region should not be different in another,” ani Tinio.