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Rep. France Castro from ACT
Teachers party-list said on Saturday that they disapprove the proposal of
former Sen. Bongbong Marcos to revise history books to present a more favorable
picture of his father, the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
“Teachers will not allow a revision of history
books and rewrite it as if the Marcos era was all good, no injustice and
corruption when in fact history already judged him as a plunderer, murderer,
fascist and criminal,” the
Makabayan representative said.
“The Marcoses have several sins to the people
especially to the education sector,”
Castro added.
“Most of the problems faced by schools such as
low budgets, lack of facilities, large class sizes, and other perennial
problems were brought by Marcos or worsened during his reign, so we cannot
condone the rehabilitation of his image nor that of his family. Until now, we
are still paying the foreign debts,”
she said.
The Party-list Rep mentioned
the Education Act which Marcos enacted in 1982.
“This law started the privatization in the
education sector and subjected the youth’s right to profit-orientation,”ACT Techer party-list rep Castro added.
“Foreign debts that mostly were plundered by
the Marcoses resulted to compounded problems in terms of finances. Because of
it, every administration after Marcos up to President Duterte had been
prioritizing the debt servicing rather than allocating the highest budget to
the education as mandated by the 1987 Constitution,” she said.
“Revising the history books to rehabilitate the
image of the Marcos family would mean we would be nullifying the sacrifices of
those who lived and died fighting tyranny and plunder,” Castro said.
“It denies justice to the countless who were
tortured, murdered, and disappeared in the name of Marcos and his dictatorship,
and the entire Filipino nation whose democracy and economy it trampled,” she added.
“It is our responsibility and is very important
for us to teach the youth the lessons of true, and unrevised history and be
able to use critical thinking and guided analysis to make sure that we not
allow fascism and state terrorism to pervade,” Castro said.
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