The Rarest Flower

             “Don’t make our kids as an experiment. Our fear is the quality of education that will result from this program. Yes it is guaranteed that after two years our child may be able to work, but what kind of job would that be? A cheap labor?” complained by one of the parents who are against by the former President Noynoy Aquino’s K-12 programs.             “ There is no law yet authorizing the implementation of the full K to 12 education program. The curriculum is not yet ready. Funds are insufficient to cover the basic inputs such as shortages on teachers, classrooms, textbooks, chairs and sanitation facilities,” the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) said in an interview.           “They will be taught how to ‘maintain a professional image’ as household workers. Other topics include ‘Desirable Traits of a Household Worker’ and ‘Duties and Res...

“Politics is always interested me, working with people is always been something that I’d like and what better way to do it, then find solutions to things that you are mad about every day and then do it inside political setting.” These are reasons why Mayor Rexlon Ting Gatchalian chose politics over his father’s billion hotel and real estate business. Being tired of complaining about the same problems and his personal urge to be part of the solution made him what he is now, in addition to this, his education in George Washington University with the degree of Bachelor of Arts and Sciences in Political Science toughen his fascination by people in politics and how they respond to different stimulus, about political settings and how it work especially when he got to expose in the diverse perspectives and points of view from his classmates from all over the world. He got to know why certain systems work and why certain systems don’t work. Over his tenure, he tries bigger and better approac...