In the schools - these remain
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Part of The Philippine Educator
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- In the schools - these remain
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- 1947
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- .. ... •·' '.... IN THE SCHOOLSTHESE REMAIN By MARCELINO A. "CUSI Principal, Calaca Ele>n. School, !Jatangas - ! - While_ this survey is limited in scope (embracing only one municipality) yet, it is believed that conditions arg tYJ2iCal of those obtaining in average towns. Out of a total of 34 teachers, only 10 were 1941 incumbent, the rest (24 of them) being employed only after liberation due to lack of better-qualified teachers. Add to this the fact that a 'lot of these substitute teachers left during the school year for the following reasons: turns and Jess responsibility. Vacancies t.hus created necessitated the employment of other substitutes without any professional training. One only needs to recount that~in prewar days teachers were either : (a) 'Professionally trained who held regular appointments, or (b) graduates of teacher-training institutions without civil service eligibility who held tempora- _ ry or substitute appointments. Not only a few of such teachers swit.cbed to jobs. which can assure them of old age 1. They found better-paying jobs in seGurity. the ·numerous army camps or private - I I - firms. 2. They secured more stable jobs with all the chances to study. 3, They engaged in small-scale business which prought them better reThe following table, will offer fitr ting answers to the article "IN THE SCHOOLS - '\\@0 REMAIN?» by Mrs. Pura Sant1tlan-Castrence (Philippine Educator, April-May, 1947) : ' TABLE EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS AND STAT'Q'S OF TEACHERS Educational Qualification Graduates of Teacher-Training Institutions . . First Year, College ...................... . High School Graduates .................. . Under High School Atainment ........... . Totals ............................ . -IIIIt is high time' that the government attract to the teaching 1 profession the talents of tbe country. Moreover, the present plight of teachers should be remedied-and at once-or else: (1) the public schools will be a ( • 28 Regular Temporary Subst. Total 0 4 I) 4 2 0 5 7 2 0 17 19 2 0 2 4 6 4 24' 34 flop; (2) the "fair hopes of my Fatherland" will not receive the training that they rightfully deserve; (3) democracy will walk down the plank; and ( 4) the future will not be secure. "• I .;_,. --' .