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Editorial Cartooning by: L. Lapu

According to coach Aaron Realoza, one of his players has reached the national games of the Philippines. Rachel Belga was the talented student of Siniloan Integrated National High School and was qualified to join in the event of “Palarong Pambansa”. Her opponents were well trained and owns very expensive and high quality types of equipment. Its unfair or it isn’t unfair? Its time to end this debate.

First of all, lets talk about why this event is unfair. One is clearly more advanced and has more high quality training than the other one just because they can afford it. Rachel was only training at school grounds. If we were to put Rachel and the other contestants undergo the same training then we can classify if they are truly skilled. Why should it be fair when someone can be “better” if they can afford to spend millions on just a sport? How can you measure someone’s skill? When someone actually trains hard and has natural and impressive skills? Or when they have a fancy and expensive training that has to go to far places or even travel other countries while having priceless kinds of equipment?

Imagine, having to go through the burden of spending millions of pesos just for a sport. That is unimaginable because the national games is for the skilled and natural people. Rachel didn’t have enough resources but still went on to represent her school.

You may say “Well they spent money for it”. This isn’t a test to check how much money your family has in the bank account. “Palarong Pambansa” is a test on how great you are at a sport and how skilled you can be.

   Fortunately, if the DepEd government was more attentive to their citizens and the students that’s affected by this curriculum, we may or may not have a better education system. The teachers could just continue teaching the students, the money could have been spent on a much more important or helpful project. Education is the number one priority especially to the students, the government could propose a better project that won’t delay.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                -Article by T. Sora