Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) & our Educational System

     In order to incentivize poor families in our country, one of the conditionalities stipulated in the CCT program of the gov't is the mandatory sending of children to school by their parents. Perfectly noble intention as it may sound, however I still believe that this CCT program is a condonation of the habit of mendicancy w/c is a common attitude among our people. But to my own perspective, hidden behind this altruism is a sense of purpose of increasing the political stock of the present administration to cover up for what seems to be a misdirected and misprioritized course of gov't policies.
     I still believe that the most proximate cause of our poverty is not corruption but education and the and the lack of it. The poor cannot seem to surface from the pit of poverty that they are trapped in because they are simply clueless and, worst, misguided on what courses of actions they will have to take to be able to survive and give their children much better future.
      It is in this context that I feel that a better educational system has to be recreated and implemented. For no matter how we forced the children to go to school, if the gov't cannot provide better school facilities and more qualified personnel to handle teaching professions, well then, the future of our country will really be bleak. Unless of course every Filipino hits the lotto jackpot!

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