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In a briefing on school opening made by Region 2 DepEd Regional Director, Estela L. Cariño, on August 19,2020, she said “We might do away of giving honors or ranks as well as numerical grades to students while we are implementing distance learning”.   With the pandemic, learning will take off on different modalities, and varied platforms. Such transition and drastic adjustments could create discrimination among learners, so it is just imperative to deviate from the normal grading system and the giving of honors or ranks be cancelled for the time being. The uncertainty of employment, the economic collapse, misery brought by infection or death caused by the virus and the subsequent effects on the family can crisscross the minds of learners, thus, making them out of focus. The adaptability of learners to the new learning platform; the absence of learning facilitators in the homes can affect the pace of learning, considering that not all learners have the same level of intelligences. Simpl

O mo, omo ! Sesange ,  CLOY in UP? In 2014, I attended a Regional Seminar and was privileged to speak in behalf of the group I was in.  I started my speech with " annyeonghaseyo ", and I saw smiles and giggles among the younger participants, while I heard " what did she say ?" among the not-so-young attendees.  From then, I got the feel, that I am among the many bewitched with Kdrama. The year 2003, Kdrama or Knovela started airing in Philippine tubes.  The two Philippine television giants, ABS-CBN tagged as the First and True Home of Asian novelas  and GMA, The Heart of Asia , had been competing on getting the shipment of hit Korean dramas. Bright Girl, Descendants of the Sun and My Sassy Girl are among the Kdramas that captivated the Filipino nation’s heart. Almost twenty Filipino adaptations of Kdramas were shown in Philippine televisions. Among them are “ My Girl ” starred by Gerald Anderson and Kim Chiu shown in ABS-CBN in 2008 and the most recent and currently

We get accustomed to be in a classroom with chatty and boisterous students.  We enjoy the lively discussions, sometimes, resulting to fights.  Students get used to teachers’ “sermon” which has oftentimes become the subject in class reunions.  Students have learned to read  teachers’ facial expressions and have learned the cue of approval or disapproval. Students came to love the pat on the shoulder which teachers oftentimes do as recognition of a job well done or a sign of assurance that he/she is there in time of need. Surely, these things were  not  experienced during the Covid pandemic days. What the students got  used  is seeing a teacher via the internet, the television or any other platform of learning delivery.  There was  no other choice, if one insist ed going to school at a time of the pandemic. In an interview I had with a college student who was  on e-learning , for no other choice because of the lockdown, she said that learning has quite become impersonal because of limite

  Officially going down the hill, so just this once, let me be on time rather than late. Sometimes you make the right decisions on a whim. You make a choice that is beyond grasp, beyond rationality, and beyond your own understanding of where you should be. I spent a lot of years thinking that I'd be bleeding maroon. I spent even more years thinking that I'd be stuck in my hometown. I chose Ateneo despite that. As soon as I saw the course description in the college viewbook, I knew what I wanted to do. Screw expectations. Screw finances. Screw literally all of the friendships that I had built in the past six years. I put myself on the other side of Katipunan, and I was alone. I reflect on this early, lonely start to my college life a lot. Now I can finally say that it's over. The space above my condo's desk isn't just post-it reminders about schoolwork anymore; it's pictures of me and my friends, art and poetry that speak to me, and keychains of my favorite anime

Being poor is never a hindrance.  It’s not a crime.  It’s a leverage to success. I am posting this primarily because I am indeed proud of my daughter’s accomplishments and at the same time to give inspiration to others who are aspiring to be an Atenean. To be honest, I did not approve of my daughter’s going to Ateneo.  From the very beginning, I was uncooperative with her application for ACET (Ateneo College Entrance Test).  However, as the saying goes. Ïf there’s a will, there’s a way.  And that’s it.   She qualified in the top 3 universities of the country : DLSU (De la Salle University), AdMU (Ateneo de Manila University) and UPD (University of the Philippines - Diliman). She also qualified as DOST - Merit Scholar.     We had a long argument regarding her choice of school because of the very obvious reason : FINANCES .  Pros and cons were laid on the table.  Friends and relatives were consulted. In the end, the die is cast and Dorothy got her resolve. AdMU maintains a reputation of

"My dad was the only person that religiously watched TV in the house. And when he wasn't on cooking channels, he was always on ABS-CBN." "After a morning jog, he'd come back home to have breakfast while watching Umagang Kay Ganda. We'd sometimes have a brief foray into GMA for Eat Bulaga during lunchtime, but more often than not, we watched Pilipinas, Game KNB? or Wowowee." "While waiting for my mom to come home after work, we'd switch to the channel dedicated to 24-hour coverage of the PBB housemates, or watch Boys Over Flowers (and after that ended, he watched Katorse just to see Erich Gonzales). Dinnertime was always watched with TV Patrol, without fail. And in the middle of all that, the television was always on ANC. Needless to say, we fought a lot over the remote." "When he died, my mother cut the cable and bought a cheap antenna from CDR-King. And though we did have access to GMA, we'd still watch TV Patrol during dinnertime