It is reported that out of the 1,700 targeted number of classrooms built, only 22 have been completed and around 800 are not even started.
To involve children in a crime is to elevate that said offense. You can kill a man and you would earn the disgust of everyone around you, but if you commit the crime on a kid then you earn the hatred from every person who knows what you have done.
Now, they have stolen from children. So many have uttered of the classroom as a sacred place of learning, where students can hone themselves for future success, but no. Even classrooms are seen as just a common wench to be drained dry and left on the streets.
To become a student is to help your chances of maybe, just maybe making it in life. But that chance has been taken away from so many. Left to share a classroom with the already cramped room filled with 50 kids and a teacher saddled with a burden too big. So many children already have their learning impeded because they cannot be given attention by the teacher. With so many students within a class, it is inevitable that some kids would get left behind.
No classrooms mean no progress in the future. Perhaps that is precisely what they want, to have the country remain as it is now, a patient in a coma while dastardly creatures of vampires suck on its blood whenever and wherever it wants.
We have a clogged path to the future. So long as children are blocked from going into their classrooms, then the great Philippine hope that lies within the youth is looking bleak.**