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Philippines : Solon calls for inquiry into defective public elementary textbooks
Publish Date : 04-Aug-2015
A lawmaker has called for a congressional inquiry into the alleged defective textbooks of public elementary students.
In House Resolution 2178, Rep. Sherwin T. Gatchalian (1st District, Valenzuela City) said a probe on defective textbooks is in order to avert further waste of public funds and ensure the best quality of education in schools.
Gatchalian said the discovery of passage with grammatical, conceptual vocabulary and idiomatic error-riddled textbooks has recently been exposed to the public.
"This discovery of error-riddled textbooks have prompted several outcry of mismanagement and corruption in the Department of Education, as well as of an unbridled wastage of already-scarce government funds," Gatchalian said.
Gatchalian said if the DepEd is really committed to making the student population globally competitive, textbooks for students and teachers should have no room for errors since these will be detrimental to the intellectual growth of students.
Gatchalian said the content evaluation by education experts must be a crucial requirement to ensure the procurement of quality books for public school students.
Gatchalian said the transformative change in the procurement and evaluation of books is not an easy process and cannot be done overnight.
"Hence it is important that sanctions be meted out for future publications that do not observe the evaluation that is necessary in the procurement of quality books," Gatchalian said.
He said there is an urgent need to revisit and examine the procurement process and evaluation of these error-riddled textbooks.
"This is not only to improve the quality of education that we inculcate to our learners but also in the interest of quality education and for the welfare of students, especially with the implementation of the K-12 program in schools," Gatchalian said.
