Editorial

What comes around comes around, only worse

It is already a perennial problem that students are greeted on their return to classes with shortages of books, armchairs and teachers. In some places, there isn't even a school to speak of in the first place.

For students in far off places, school is that place under a big tree, huge enough to cast a shadow that would serve as a classroom.

This has been the problem ever since.

The shortages have been blamed for the deteriorating quality of education in the country. The deteriorating trend is confirmed by dismal results in the government's diagnostic tests.

Fortunately though, the Department of Education has said that they will be pouring money into those places which have the most number of shortages. These places are colored 'black' in their spectrum. Whether it was intentionally done or just coincidence, students from these schools belonging to this category are likely to have 'black' futures ahead of them because of barriers preventing them from getting quality education.

If the government would continue to neglect its very important obligations as regards education of its youth, the problem of deteriorating quality of education would continue to plague the nation.

Just like the cliché, what comes around comes around. Only in our case, it would be worse.