A Private School Student and a Public School Student Meet and Talk | Filipino | Rec•Create
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And then due to financial reasons, tsaka rin po siyempre yung K-12,
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naging public school student na po.
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Yung lamang po namin...
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I'll definitely say connections.
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It introduced me to a large pool of people.
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Yung iba talaga yung buhay ng public school.
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Kasi pagpasok mo sa eskwelahan, wala namang aircon.
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It's the fact that you're meeting so much people who are more higher-end types of things,
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na you'll meet more people who are diverse,
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especially in the business side if you're going into an assault.
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Yung pressure po talaga sa'min, napakalaki.
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Inaalay po namin araw-araw yung pag-aaral namin para sa bansa.
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Since I'm going for psychology in the future, I just really like learning a lot about people.
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And the more I can learn about people different from me, the better.
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Hi, nice to meet you.
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Hi, my name's Yvonne, 22.
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I'm the private school student at DLSU.
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So, I'm Mayka, and I am from Pamantasan ng Gusot ng Maynila.
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So, para sa tayo.
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Yeah, para sa tayong tag-a-visit.
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From Manila School.
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I swear I can speak Filipino.
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I thought that you'd speak more Filipino.
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Ito, like, public school na I just assume na
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either super religious or super na high moral ground na upstandard na
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really nice parents.
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That's usually what I notice.
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Like, super random assumption.
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But you guys are really good sa fashion, ah.
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Like, all the ukay deals and shit.
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Like, you guys know what you're doing.
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So, my assumptions with private school students is that you guys are super chill.
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Like, how do you guys even do that?
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I don't believe that Konyos are always in private schools.
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Because I also know some Konyos in public schools.
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But what I assume is that you guys are more proficient in speaking English verbally.
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In public school, we tend to be shy with speaking English.
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You guys have more student to outside school balance.
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And the fifth one is that private schools are always told that you have more...
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Parang mas malaki yung chance na nyo na ma-hire agad.
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And, um, and you work.
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Never have I ever gone to a class hungover.
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Just online class also?
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Lahat yung education, sis.
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Never have I ever saw kahit yung maliit lang, may away sa school.
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O, kasama ko nga, eh.
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Never have I ever done anything sexual sa school.
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Ah, yan. See? Yung assumptions ko, upstanding morals.
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Upstanding morals?
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Ano? Kasi bawal talaga siya.
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Well, syempre bawal talaga. That's the excitement of it.
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Never have I ever, kahit na accidental, nakalimutang magbayad sa canteen.
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In one of the private schools I was in, yung tito ko was the head sa canteen, right?
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Lapit ko na 2k, one time.
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Grabe, 2k yung nagastos mo do'n.
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Kasi sa amin, siguro pinakamalaki na mga 200, ganun.
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Hmm, ata na lang yung latest siguro.
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Ah, yan. So yan. Girlfriend reveal, I guess.
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You guys are cute.
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Yeah, look. She's adorable, right?
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This is, we went to, like, sa Intramuros to actually.
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She's the reason I'm here in this video. Fun fact.
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Yeah, public school siya before.
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Taga public school rin pala. Nice.
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Okay, so this was last November.
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So I was a former exchange student with government scholarship.
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So we exchanged local culture.
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So maraming nagperform from different parts of the Philippines.
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Yeah, so I was one of the speakers.
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So you mentioned that the government helped sponsor some of your,
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well, your trip before all the way out of the country.
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Do you think that the government has been helping a lot with the education in general?
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Well, honestly, not really.
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Isang cut lang nila ng budget sa education sector.
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Lahat ng public school, apektado.
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Like, even for example, kahit sa UP pa lang.
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If they cut the budget of UP, then even the PGH will have lower budget.
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Kapag na-cut yung budget, dun pa lang.
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Sa college pa lang, kahit sa universities, magiging domino effect na siya.
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Up to the public high school and elementary.
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And the government is not really helping because sobrang overcrowded ng public schools.
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Sa amin siguro privilege kasi special classes kami, special curriculum.
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Noong elementary ako, naalala ko 30 lang kami.
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Pero pag pumunta ka sa ibang classroom, 60 sila, 50 plus.
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Naisip mo, paano sila natututo sa ganong set-up?
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Di ba dapat ang ratio ay one teacher is maximum na siguro 30 students.
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Kahit nasabihin natin na pinapaaralan nila kami, eh hindi naman namin utang na loob yun sa kanilang responsibility nila yun.
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Nakalagay rin naman yun sa constitution natin.
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So if you think that they're helping, well, yes, but it's the bare minimum.
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I'm just thankful and blessed that I have the privilege to have those things.
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Pero kung titignan mo, hindi naman lahat ng taga-public school ay meron nung katulad ng experiences ko.
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What can you say with how the private school manage the online classes?
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I do know that in those tuition fee, nagbabaya din kayo ng facilities.
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At nung online class, hindi naman kayo pumapasok ng school. Is it worth it or is it not?
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You know I had to pay for dental during online class.
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What am I gonna do with this intro? Am I gonna do this?
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It just felt like unnecessary fees.
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I can understand maintenance, but it just felt like they were tacking on more than necessary for them.
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And to be fair, schools have to make money, have to survive, right?
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But it was out of our pocket.
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I'm lucky that I'm in a place where I could survive during online classes.
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But of course, just because you're from a private school,
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same way, just because you're in a public school doesn't mean that you're financially unstable.
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Just because you're in a private school doesn't mean you're financially stable either.
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And I had former batchmates also who couldn't really handle those types of fees well.
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And some people, they really rely on being in the campus itself to survive off their own facilities.
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Online, whether you were public or private, I don't think any school was really prepared to go online.
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And quite frankly, I don't think a lot of them did it well.
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It just felt like they were adjusting as much as they could,
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which is the best that they could have done.
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From my experience, I could survive, but not everyone could.
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And that's the problem.
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Of course, the government also did something.
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Because in Manila, they gave school tablets.
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And one for each household that had students studying in a public school.
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Let's just say that five of them were studying in a public school.
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So it's just one tablet, and they were all sharing that tablet.
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And it's not allowed to be damaged.
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Because if it's damaged, they'll have to pay the government.
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A lot of students dropped out because of online classes.
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Because, of course, it's just a load.
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Not everyone has Wi-Fi at home, right?
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Sobrang amazing na nakagraduate.
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Pero sobrang nakakadisappointment din that not everyone had the privilege to graduate.
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I do believe na K-12 ka rin.
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Kasi, syempre, K-12 students tayo.
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Do you think na sa private school, mas okay ba yung teaching ng K-12?
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Or talagang nakapalang din kayo?
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I think that there's a good idea there.
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It's a great idea to let people specify on further.
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And to also add the additional grades to catch up, right?
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But I think where the problem starts is,
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aside from trying to make people care about it, right?
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There's also the actual implementation of how they teach it.
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At least in my experience, the teachers, they did their best.
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But I think the big issue is,
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we have such good teachers here in the Philippines.
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Pero yung nangyari is making the teachers want to stay
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and making the students care about what they're learning in the first place.
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They had a hard time making us care.
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Or at least my batchmates didn't really care.
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I wanted to learn.
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I'm the type that goes to school to learn more than to actually pass the test.
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ah kapag nag-K-12 ka,
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pwede ka na magtrabaho, ganyan.
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Tapos malalaman-alaman mo,
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yung application sa, kahit sabihin natin, cashier, bagger,
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bakit nakalagay pa rin, college, graduate?
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Ano yung sense ng K-12 for that?
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Like, sobrang ganda nung concept,
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pero hindi siya napapa-implement.
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Problem also with the strand system.
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For arts and design,
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maybe pwede naman na umalis ka, create art after,
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and maybe like some other place will accept you
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as long as your portfolio is nice, right?
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Pero then you look at STEM,
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na who will pick up someone from STEM na high school lang, honestly?
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Like, puro master's lang, PhD.
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That's what the strand system promised,
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but not every strand is fully prepared to take people
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who just have a high school education.
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So, I guess even with all of our criticisms,
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do you think that public school has been helping you
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towards your future goals, aspirations?
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Well, syempre kasi, it's been part of my life ever since.
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I've experienced different schools already.
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SPED, public school under special science curriculum,
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and now public university.
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Lahat yun dadalhin ko yun pag graduate ako.
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I do remember yung mga sinasabi ng former teachers na,
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okay lang na mag-abroad ka,
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pero babalik ka sa bansa natin.
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Kasi ikaw yung pinag-ipunan ng lahat ng taong bahayan.
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You must have the will to give back to your country
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as a public school student.
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Kasi ikaw rin naman yung aasahan ng susunod na generation natin.
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Generation Alpha or whatsoever.
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Because of those different experiences,
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you will know how to react to such things,
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not just in school, but also in society.
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Dun palang nakikita na natin na kahit na private ka or public student,
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what matters is that you still have those burning desire
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to help your country.
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Sabi nga sa PLM, mag-aral tulad ni Rizal.
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And for me, my last question is,
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I do remember reading an article about Montessori schools
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from Maria Montessori.
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Oh my God, that's one of the private schools I was in.
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Oh my gosh, this is for you.
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The Montessori method of teaching
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to give a bit of a historical background.
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Maria Montessori, she worked together
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with special education students at the time.
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So, they were given their own unique set of ways
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to learn an education.
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So, they're, for example, given different blocks,
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a trinomial cube,
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and they're supposed to mix and match
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and fix it up again.
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And that also helps teach math and spacing.
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Maria Montessori thought,
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what if I apply this to students
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that aren't necessarily special needs?
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What if we give them a system of learning
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that's more accepting for everyone?
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Yeah, that's more inclusive.
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So, that's where the idea came from
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and how she started the movement,
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the idea of the Montessori Way.
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But that's the scary thing.
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Now, when you have such a good idea,
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people will want to capitalize on it.
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So, here comes capitalism and privatization,
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which destroys the whole point
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of what they were trying to do.
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Montessori was trying to create an education
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that's inclusive to all,
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but now only a certain demographic
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can even attain that
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because the price tag is pretty expensive.
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Those teaching methods and philosophies
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are really meant for the poorest of the poor
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As a private school student,
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do you think that it is the best solution
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for public and private schools
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to collaborate and create a synthesis
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about teaching methods in public school
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and also teaching method in private school?
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parang tayo-tayo lang din magtutulungan.
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I think a synthesis would be perfect, actually.
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Like, in a perfect world,
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that is the best possible scenario.
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To make it more accessible to everyone,
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the goal of education is to bring everyone up.
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Like, there was never a price tag on education
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and there never should have been.
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I can only imagine that people would be
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And for those who both have learning disabilities
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and are struggling financially,
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even they have a chance in the world.
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Very grateful that I became part of this
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kasi we've eventually discussed things
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that are needed to be discussed.
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In my position of being in a private school,
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admittedly, alam ko naman na may privilege ako,
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Nepo baby ka na, right?
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Ultimately, I'm just grateful I got to see
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what it was like on the other side.
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She was a cool person.
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May pagkakaiba naman talaga
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with private school and public school.
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Pero yung adhika natin bilang mga studyante,
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isa lang din yung goal natin na
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mas gumanda yung education sector
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at mas gumanda yung bansa natin in the future.
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And also, even now,
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yun talaga yung goal natin as student.
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Even with my privatized education,
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I feel should be for everyone.
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The price of education shouldn't be this high.
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There's a lot for you to learn in education
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no matter where you are, private or public.
