Best Posts in Thread: Common sense (or the lack of)

Honestly, I don't think the Government is interested in furthering education standards.
Keep the masses relatively stupid and obedient, and the ruling classes can just continue to remind them how fantastic they are, by bunging a few pesos around at election times.

 

I recall someone I know, attending a State High school here, being sent a text by a 'teacher' at about 9 pm on a Sunday with a list of materials to bring in to school the next morning - i.e. after all stores have closed and maybe many families already being asleep. Parents here are scared to question teachers but I sent a message asking why this requirement was not requested on the Friday and received no acceptable reply, except that the teacher was a newbie! So what do they do during teacher 'training' (assuming there are no common-sense genes here)?

I have also heard that some teachers (and I do not wish to paint all teachers in the same colour as there are some very good ones - albeit, very few) do personal shopping during the school day and the kids remain alone in the classroom.

There has been much discussion from the rulers (unintended pun) about how to drag the country up from near the bottom of the World's leagues in education (in fact, educational standards here have deteriorated over recent decades) and the first thing to sort out is educating the educators or else the cycle of the uneducated teaching the wanting-to-be-educated will continue. One way to do this is to import talent (IF it wants to come!) into teacher training colleges to give them a boost BUT in a country that thinks it tops the world, it is a big issue to ask the outside world to help.

 

Another example of lacking common sense is found with the Alarms entity NDRRMC.
In itself it's a good initiative to warn people in a particular area of impending disaster of course, but to send alerts for every time a volcano has a hiccup that's hardly noticed 10 km away, let alone when it (Kanlaon) is 100 km away like in our case.
If (as it does) NDRRMC sends dozens of Kanlaon warnings in the course of a single month (5 of which on January 2 alone) to everyone on Negros, then the obvious result will be that nobody pays any attention to such warnings whatsoever.
If people could sign up to receive a warning only if it actually blows up and the ash-clouds rise up to 5 km or higher instead of a measly 300 meters, oh well , that's daydreaming I know.

 

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Yesterday my wife's two nieces were sent home from school mid-morning due to the rain, i could not understand this as they were already at school, the rain was forecast days ago so why not suspend classes the day before, surely the rain cannot harm them inside the school, so they made the journey home on their motorbike in heavy rain (dangerous)
When my wife asked them why they did not wait in the school until the rain was off or not so heavy they replied that all the teachers left the school so they had to go.
We went into town for lunch and the streets were full of kids wandering around in the rain, Robinsons mall was full of kids, maybe the parents were at work and they could not go home.
All in all i think the decision to suspend classes mid-morning was lacking common sense and definitely not done in the best interest of the pupils.
Maybe the teachers enjoyed their extra time off though