Reaction Paper About Super Inggo
Super Inggo
I met a young boy named “super inggo”. He is a 16 year old boy with big dreams. I came their thinking that I should be teaching him something. Yet, he actually touched my heart and taught me more about life.
Molave youth homes is built in 1973 to be a temporary custody and care for minors— 9 to 17 years old— who had conflict with the law (Yap, 2006). The youth homes provide therapeutic and counseling for the youth. According to an article written by Okonkwo (2012), “the youth are amenable to treatment that adults are not.” Thus, the incarceration of the youth would never be an ideal treatment. Youth homes like the Molave are built to provide basic needs – social, emotional, and physical needs – that the juvenile law offender need …show more content…
Yet, as we start the activity these kids actually taught me more than what I taught them. I started thinking there will be always a bigger picture than the vicinity of the university. I started believing that these kids are not criminals. Thus, poverty pushes them to commit such crimes. But these crimes doesn’t hinder these kids in still believing to change and to study hard. One statement of Super inggo strikes me the most— “Sa labas kasi di ko makuha makapag-aral, kahit namiss ko yung labas okay na dito kasi nakakapag-aral ako”. His statement made me realize how education very important and how it is deprived to be given to the youth. This statement makes me think twice if I really value my education. As a iskolar ng bayan, the experience supports the advocacy of a free education. That every Filipino should attain a scientific, mass-oriented, and free education. That I believe that this youth need this education to hinder them to offend the law and be a responsible citizen of the country. These insights changed my point of view about these kids. That they are not willingly committing this crime and they are forced to commit this because of poverty. Yet, with this institution gives chances to this youth to be able to correct and be a productive citizen of the country. Making still believe that the youth will always be the future of the
I met a young boy named “super inggo”. He is a 16 year old boy with big dreams. I came their thinking that I should be teaching him something. Yet, he actually touched my heart and taught me more about life.
Molave youth homes is built in 1973 to be a temporary custody and care for minors— 9 to 17 years old— who had conflict with the law (Yap, 2006). The youth homes provide therapeutic and counseling for the youth. According to an article written by Okonkwo (2012), “the youth are amenable to treatment that adults are not.” Thus, the incarceration of the youth would never be an ideal treatment. Youth homes like the Molave are built to provide basic needs – social, emotional, and physical needs – that the juvenile law offender need …show more content…
Yet, as we start the activity these kids actually taught me more than what I taught them. I started thinking there will be always a bigger picture than the vicinity of the university. I started believing that these kids are not criminals. Thus, poverty pushes them to commit such crimes. But these crimes doesn’t hinder these kids in still believing to change and to study hard. One statement of Super inggo strikes me the most— “Sa labas kasi di ko makuha makapag-aral, kahit namiss ko yung labas okay na dito kasi nakakapag-aral ako”. His statement made me realize how education very important and how it is deprived to be given to the youth. This statement makes me think twice if I really value my education. As a iskolar ng bayan, the experience supports the advocacy of a free education. That every Filipino should attain a scientific, mass-oriented, and free education. That I believe that this youth need this education to hinder them to offend the law and be a responsible citizen of the country. These insights changed my point of view about these kids. That they are not willingly committing this crime and they are forced to commit this because of poverty. Yet, with this institution gives chances to this youth to be able to correct and be a productive citizen of the country. Making still believe that the youth will always be the future of the