Pass your paper finished or unfinished

Classes have begun and the schools are once again packed with students hopeful to have a better future.

- Romelinda Garces

Their parents look forward to every year of success as their children go through every rung in the educational ladder.

We hope with them. Acknowledging that it is to them that we surrender the tomorrows of our age.

We pray for the teachers being the surrogates who help cultivate the minds and character of the different generations that pass through them. We are with them in their desire to provide the best quality of instruction that they can give. We laud them for the sacrifice that goes with their noble vocation. I would like to believe that as the basic default of every teacher is to serve as we know the pittance they receive every month does not compensate for the volume of work they do for every class. Some may argue that the teacher’s pay has increased, I tend to look at the volume of work that a Filipino teacher has in her hands. Unlike her counterparts in other developed countries where they have research assistants and staff to help in some of the needed administrative requirements, that add to the quagmire of paper work. Reality check, we are still in the third world so we have to bank on that intrinsic resilience that comes handy to all of us.