TACLOBAN CITY – Problems in public schools will not be addressed if the government will only be providing the solution to it.
This was according to Leyte Governor Jericho “Icot” Petilla in his talk with education stakeholders in the region.
“We know that 20 years ago our problem was classroom, and today our problem is still the same, and tomorrow classrooms still still our problem,” said Petilla.
“But what do we do to address this problem, is we build more classrooms,” Petilla added.
“We keep on building, buildings and tapping the Chinese chamber, local government officials for them to provide the buildings, but still the problem is the same, the lack of classroom building,” he added.
“The right thing to do to address this, is to innovate, we need innovation to provide solution to this decade long problem that has been existing in the public schools of our country,” he stressed.
“Innovation is really the solution for this problem. If we stop innovating we stop growing,” he added.
This innovation in addressing this present problem, according to Petilla, is to be tackled by him together with the help of the Department of Science and Technology in the region.
However, he failed to discuss said innovation to the education stakeholders as it has not yet been finalized with the DOST.
Furthermore, Petilla added that aside from classrooms, the education sector has other problems that also need to be addressed, but what is happening right now is, the solution to address the problem are instant solutions and not the long time solutions.
One of the innovations that the provincial government had introduced to the education sector was the implementation of the ICOT-P program which aims to address problem of education sector in producing quality high school graduates that are ready to enter the labor force matching the demand on the current job market.
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