Problems of education in the Philippines

LACK OF FACILITIES IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS

     In public schools there are so many pupils/students not enough for the school facility.  We are lack of rooms and even teachers.  The government just give the lowest fund for the public schools so the output is not enough for so many students. "The Department of Education’s (DepEd) data shows that shortages in classrooms are pegged at 19,579, 60 million shortages in textbooks, 2.5 million shortages in chairs and 80, 937 shortages in water and sanitation facilities while 770 schools in Metro Manila, Cebu, and Davao are overcrowded." http://bulatlat.com/main/2013/07/19/shortages-lack-of-budget-still-afflict-public-school-system/  

LACK OF TEXTBOOKS

     Usually in public schools these are the scenario that we can see because of insufficient of textbooks.   The Philippine Constitution has mandated the government to allocate the highest proportion of its budget to education. However, the Philippines still has one of the lowest budget allocations to education among the ASEAN countries. 

MALNUTRITION

     
     According to Castro there is a serious need to address the number of out of school children. According to UNESCO’s data, the Philippines has 1.4 million out of school children. The Philippines is the only ASEAN country that is included in the top five countries with the highest number of out of school youth. The DepEd’s 2012 data showed a 6.38 percent dropout rate in primary school and 7.82 percent in secondary.

     “The increasing number of out of school children is being caused by poverty. The price increases in prices of oil, electricity, rice, water and other basic commodities are further pushing the poor into dire poverty,” ACT said in a statement. As more families have become poorer, more students are enrolling in public schools, particularly high school. This, according to ACT, has exerted tremendous pressure on the smaller number of high schools. At present, there are 38,503 elementary schools while there are only 7,470 high schools. The group also blames militarization in the country side for forcing students to stop schooling.

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