It was an extra-ordinary day!
You get to
scratch clean the dirty walls and smack yellow paint over it, of course in a
coordinated manner. It was my first Bregada Eswkela experience. A yearly
program of DepEd where an army of volunteers composed of students, teachers,
parents and other concerned citizen do systematic repainting and repairs in
different public schools. We were assigned to Old Balaran Elementary School in Quezon City.
It
was a fairly small school with a covered court at the center sided by buildings.
The new ones, as seen by the bright colour and modernish design sits on the
right while we are to repair and repaint the building sitting on the right of
the covered courts.
Sanding,
cleaning and repainting may at first impression, appear to be a face lift
service. But I saw that this one day exercise does more than just give the
school a new and fresh feel. It is a symbolic call that education, particularly
in public schools is everybody’s business: cleaning it outside – and reforming
it within.
Needless to say,
education is key in building an enlightened citizenry that would elect
enlightened leaders who would eventually make and implement enlightened
policies. This series of outcomes will eventually strengthen our intuitions and
our nation as a whole.
A heroic
response to this call aside from a week of school cleaning is two years of
teaching as a public school teacher at Teach Philippines.
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