Reaction paper
Reaction Paper
The subject and language required to be used here in the Philippines is Filipino which we consider good for the education in our country. From elementary to college, Tagalog or Filipino as a language and a subject were introduced. Recently, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) announced that they will be removing obligatory Filipino subjects taught in college. The scrapping of Filipino subjects was then opposed by different members of the society which includes students and teachers. They, who comprise professors and students from different universities and colleges, who are against the removal of Filipino subject in the tertiary level already created a coalition which they called Defenders of the Filipino Language Alliance, which according to them is in order to maintain the Filipino subject in college and have a nationalistic education in our country.
The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) affirmed that the removal of Filipino subjects in the curriculum of the tertiary level will be applied in the year 2016 under the program K to 12. They said that it would already suffice that the Filipino subject would be taught during the basic years of learning. In my opinion, we should not remove the Filipino subject in tertiary education in agreement to the arguments stated in ‘A language war in the time of DAP.’ The first argument that they showed was the 1987 Constitution which states that “the national and official language of the Philippines is Filipino” while the second states that it will be a good contribution to teach Filipino in college. The government should still let Filipino be used in the system of education. It would be a betrayal to remove Filipino courses in college because as Filipinos, why would we want to remove what we know would strengthen us. I believe that it is better that Filipino should remain as a subject taught in higher education. There were three laws passed by the Congress which mainly
The subject and language required to be used here in the Philippines is Filipino which we consider good for the education in our country. From elementary to college, Tagalog or Filipino as a language and a subject were introduced. Recently, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) announced that they will be removing obligatory Filipino subjects taught in college. The scrapping of Filipino subjects was then opposed by different members of the society which includes students and teachers. They, who comprise professors and students from different universities and colleges, who are against the removal of Filipino subject in the tertiary level already created a coalition which they called Defenders of the Filipino Language Alliance, which according to them is in order to maintain the Filipino subject in college and have a nationalistic education in our country.
The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) affirmed that the removal of Filipino subjects in the curriculum of the tertiary level will be applied in the year 2016 under the program K to 12. They said that it would already suffice that the Filipino subject would be taught during the basic years of learning. In my opinion, we should not remove the Filipino subject in tertiary education in agreement to the arguments stated in ‘A language war in the time of DAP.’ The first argument that they showed was the 1987 Constitution which states that “the national and official language of the Philippines is Filipino” while the second states that it will be a good contribution to teach Filipino in college. The government should still let Filipino be used in the system of education. It would be a betrayal to remove Filipino courses in college because as Filipinos, why would we want to remove what we know would strengthen us. I believe that it is better that Filipino should remain as a subject taught in higher education. There were three laws passed by the Congress which mainly