Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Bregada Eskwela 2013


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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