Do Dead-end Weekend Really Effective?
“Therefore, no homework/assignments shall be given during the weekends for students
to enjoy their childhood, and spend quality time with their parents without being
burdened by the thought of doing lots of homework,
It’s been a long week of school, you’re tired, and all the motivation you have left is to go
home and sleep for a good eight hours. You also look forward to changing out with
friends and relaxing on the weekend until having to return to misery known as school
the following Monday and repeat another tiring week. In the midst of your happiness,
you are informed of having homework to do during the weekend. The happiness slowly
fades to sadness as the reality of having to complete a minimum of two hours of
homework starts to kick in
As a student, I don’t mind doing homework since it is part of my duties. What really gets
on my nerves though is getting assigned homework over the weekend. With this, I
strongly agree with the idea of Bro. Armin Luistro, hence, actions shall be taken for it to
be held effectively in schools all over the nation. First and foremost, family time is more
important during the weekends. Personally, as a student living away from my family,
weekend is the only opportunity I could spend time with them and most of times, I am
deprived of that opportunity due to tons of schoolwork that needs to be done. After all,
it’s just a matter of two days compared to the five days we spend at school, would it be
a great loss to the course of our lessons?
Second, more homework doesn’t necessarily equate to higher achievement. Everyone
needs a mental breather and the weekends are the best time for relaxation for longer
hours of sleep or for anything you want to do other than your school tasks. Students
then, should get less homework on weekends because too much can cause great
stress which in turn causes lack of sleep, slipping grades, fatigue, unhealthy eating
habits, depression and other many factors.
lastly, students might learn more from observing the real world and weekend
assignments deprive them from this opportunity. learning isn’t just about paper and pen
activities! Teachers should also inspire students to seek ways to learn from real world
experiences. They might be enlightened to learn more about the real world and different
jobs they might pursue in the future other than just sitting on a desk all day just to
complete all the assigned task. Extracurricular activities and personal hobbies are
important in helping to develop one’s character, and especially in these crucial years it
seems an important thing to define ourselves. However, these important times are just
being taken up by more and more work. As student and as a teen, we should have
more time to be able to flourish creatively and to have fun, not to sit on a desk and study
all the time.
The bottom line of this is we want only what’s best for our students. We don’t train
robots, we train humans. We don’t only fill the brains of our students. We should be able
to fill their hearts. Let’s make learning easy and enjoyable. Let us not take times in
which children and teens could not do something great with their family and treasure the
memory for the rest of their lives. Let us not make learning a horrible experience for our
students. Weekends are the perfect time to get a couple days without having to worry
about completing homework, and if all teachers were not to give homework, then there
would probably be an improvement in student’s attitude towards actually doing
homework during the week, thus counteracting their journey to the dead-end weekend.
Apple Villamor
12- GAS (REMBRANDT)
CORRUPTION
The Philippines is widely held to be the oldest democracy in Asia. Democratic
institutions such as separation of powers, judicial independence, and rule of law had
good foundations, but were eroded by a personalistic political system and ambiguous
policies in the past which allowed too much discretion given to government officials in
dispensing resources and services. This discretionary power, in a context of brittle
accountability, supplied the basic incentives for corruption
The Philippines is not lacking in efforts in curbing corruption. Anti-corruption
policies and measures are in place to deal with the different kinds of corrupt activities
and behavior in the government. In fact, it is even observed that there are too many
laws and regulatory mechanisms that tend to overlap with each other. If executed
thoroughly, these laws are sufficient and comprehensive enough to discourage corrupt
acts.
Almost all regimes made anti-corruption efforts its slogan and correspondingly
created new offices to carry this out as these efforts seemed to create the impression
that the new administration is serious in its anti-corruption initiatives. Creation of such
bodies however only resulted to redundant functions and wastage of government
resources. While the Philippines has sufficiently created the legal framework for
addressing the issue and created institutions charged with combating specific corruption
issues, apparently it sorely lacks efforts to successfully implement these laws. Absence
of a committed leadership and political will has jeopardized the efforts to curb
corruption. Corrupt politicians and government officials seemed not to be short of
inventive ways to circumvent the safeguards in place.
Corruption is a governance issue because it involves effective functioning of
institutions and management of society thru its political, economic, social and judicial
mechanisms. When these formal and informal institutions break down, laws and policies
that ensure accountability and transparency of the government become harder to
implement. The Philippine experience showed that ruling groups, at their will, can
reduce accountability, either thru lack of transparency or by declaring certain areas of
decision making off limits to scrutiny and intervention. Hence, it is necessary that
mechanisms towards reducing opportunities to monopolize power is in place such that
any actions that may undermine accountability are immediately preempted and
disciplined.
The control of corruption requires three strategies. First, the formal machinery of
monitoring officials and politicians needs to be drastically improved. There is a need for
political will to implement this. Second, this will can be generated by popular pressure.
We cannot expect the bureaucrats and politicians who benefit from the political system
to reform themselves. Third, the public must be educated to exert moral and political
pressure to outlaw corruption. The mobilization of such public pressure depends on a
clearer understanding of the modern concepts of public office and public service and a
more widespread awareness of the social costs and political risks which corruption
entails.
“POLITICAL ISSUES”
SUBMITTED BY:
KATHLENE MAY B. AUTIDA
SUBMITTED TO:
JONA S. BABATUAN