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At the very moment I returned to my PC, a louder, more horrible sound was heard. It’s no more a whisper of a haunting person, but a roaring voice of a beast! My arterial pressure rose, my blood was shifted from my stomach and intestine to the heart! I screamed for horror and craved for help! I cried out and called my mom.
And having heard of my loud, but cracked voice, Mommy went out to look at what happened. I was stumbling for words and almost die because of fear. And you know what? While I was crying, a man came out laughing to the extent. I almost killed that person. He is the one behind those sounds and voices that were close to giving me a heart attack, trying to scare me. And he succeed! Because he really scared me! And do you know who is he? He is none other than my loving and caring father! He said he had done that thing in order for me to go to bed because it was already late. I just laughed after hearing that.

When I first heard the issue, I overlooked it. That when our professor asked if we are in favor of the additional two years in basic education, I immediately answered “yes” without looking at the whole scenario. I realized that there are some more solutions that must first be taken into account that there is still a number of education issues not yet resolved. For example, we must first attend to the primary problems about insufficient instructional materials such as textbooks and workbooks, lack of classrooms, incompetent teachers, illiteracy of students in technology, inconvenient school facilities and even the tremendous need for adequate school supplies.

Because if we will not able to solve these primary dilemmas, it would still profit us nothing even if we extend the years of schooling. If the government cannot even support every Filipino child with a ten-year learning process, what is the reason of adding two more years in the basic education? It is true that we will not just sit and watch our people die without tasting the goodness of education. But the extension of schooling years is not the solution. According to Abbe Dimnet, “Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.”