The documentary features a class in Sauyo High School in Quezon City, where the lesson is all about syllabicating words, writing the alphabet and identifying colors. Surprisingly, this class is not in the elementary level but in high school called Section Darwin wherein all 29 students of the class reached Grade 7 without knowing how to read nor write. While this looks good to the eyes and sounds noble to the ears, it comes only as an empty rhetorical response to a crisis that demands immediate decisive action. It is a technocratic top to bottom program, which aims to showcase motion instead of action and activity without power. The late John F. Kennedy once said, “There are risks and costs to action.

Source: Manila Times January 01, 2020 22:52 UTC