ERRATA

Folks, I cannot fathom why whenever I go back to my blog, so many errors occur which I am 90% sure were not there when I sent them to you. My sincerest apologies for them. Emma

EDUCATION VERSUS INFRA

So in MetroManila various public works will be executed, destroying the balance of educational activities. The DepEd has been asked to shorten the schooling days to 4 DAYS in order to prevent the students and faculty from experiencing stress. 

Where in the world does this kind of political act happen, where the education of the students gives way to public works? I am truly aghast at this idea. It is tantamount to making the students stupid for the moment, encouraging them to laze around while roads are being built. 

What are the priorities of the government, roads versus intellect of the people?

Look Folks, Carlos Albert High School and Betty Go Belmonte Elementary School are located inside communities here in Quezon City and their students come from the various poor communities like Tatalon, Talayan, areas of Barangays Dona Imelda and Santol. Majority of the students just walk to the schools. Now why shorten their schooling days? I don't understand it. It is a very dangerous move. CAHS is known to have drug-addicted students some of whom I think have been prohibited from enrolling there. 

It is very hard to prove drug addiction but I saw a student who was so angry because he was not accepted for enrolment. Yet he is about to graduate from high school already. When he talked he had that aggressive mien which I sensed was not a normal act of a student. I figured he could be into drugs. 

I think that this four-day schooling should be rethought again and again. Public works should give way to education, not the other way around. 

DESTROY THE NETWORK OF WEBCAM CHILD PORNOGRAPHY BUSINESS

Utterly disgusting, utterly gross. Parents are pushing their children to serve as sexual visual objects of pedophiles from abroad for dollars. What has happened to parents in the Philippines? Are our people that desperate to earn, to the point of selling their children to do lascivious acts in front of webcams? How did our morals descend this low, objectifying children, corrupting their minds instead of making them feel dignified to be in this world, destroying their Christian values of what human life is, the image of God, as God made us in His/Her image. 

Worst of worsts, the Philippines is number one in webcam child pornography? How did we become so?

"Desperation is the emotional state of despair in which a person feels a situation to be hopeless and without satisfactory options. Decisions made in desperation may be more rash, impulsive, and inappropriate than those made in a rational frame of mind," so say the sociologists and psychologists.

I think that the volume of economic problems we suffer from -- especially the pork barrel scam, the misuse of the Malampaya funds which could actually save us from the rut of economic downturns, the continuing spiral of oil prices which could actually be curbed through price regulation of oil products, the emotional distance created by separation of families, if not family destruction -- all these are just too much for any needy person, usually lowly educated to handle. Hence, it is difficult to say that we must pressure the parents to stop this criminal activities altogether. Right away!

 "Let the children alone, and do not hinder them from coming to Me; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."

Jesus Christ knew the vulnerability of children. Those victims will not be able to say no to their parents. They are too weak, emotionally and physically, not to obey. 

I think that there is still a way to curb this crime of abusing children. Let the barangay captains be answerable for this heinous crime. Catch and arrest them right away. Surely every leader in the community knows what is going on. Every barangay has a purok leader, the eyes and ears in every corner -- who is putting what business, who is sleeping with whom, who is being used and abused. And should a barangay captain does not know that, then he/she does not deserve that post at all. 

Come on, Folks, let us stop kidding each other. We have failed the next generations. It is time for us to push our generation to stand up and fight for children's rights for a dignified life. LET US DESTROY THE NETWORK OF WEBCAM CHILD PORNOGRAPHY BUSINESS! NOW NA!