Holistic approach needed

By Gonzalo Duque

We sincerely thank friends and foes alike for their praises and commendations the likes of Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez and Schools Supt.  Aurora Domingo and her district supervisors.

Oh, yes, before anything else, all this fuss about perennial flooding and termites eating up our schools are mere results of a lack of a wholistic vision of our concerns.

Let us not be rattled by immediate irritations but rather take a long view of things and then mount meaningful and, as we said, holistic solutions to existing problems.

Somebody asked how they (the education sector) should tap the office of Speaker Joe De Venecia, Well, we have an idea on this account. In a number of meetings with the Speaker, the officers of  the Philippine Ass’n of Colleges and Universities (PACU), a De Venecia advice is that requests should be put in detail and thoroughly studied and researched and backed by documents. Short of these basic requirements, hindi papansinin ni Speaker.

Papaano naman, ang dami-daming humihingi ng attention nya, tapos nandiyan na ang mga kababayan na   ang tingin  sa kanya ay laging Santa Klaws! Ay naku, Inday, kawawa ang   Speaker!

Our initial talks with the Speaker about the modernization of the public school   system are guided  by this thought.  Ayaw niya ang pitsi-pitsi or meaningless talk.

Now, we understand why the Speaker is sometimes branded as “promising.” Fact is, he couldn’t act on proposals that strike him as meaningless. The fault lies obviously with us.

Why do we sound like a De Venecia apologist? No, not at all. We are merely   giving you, Madam Auring especially, some inputs on how to get what you want.

Why are we concerned?  Because your cause is education. One of city high’s alumni, our neighbor Jun Velasco, has been visioning a modern educational center.  He even interviewed Speaker Joe’s businessman-brother Oscar De Venecia, who graduated from city high at age 14.

Mr. Oscar De Venecia, chairman-president of   Basic Petroleum, has a grandiose plan for the Alma Mater. Bakit walang nangyayari?

 In our view, nobody has done it the way we are proposing here. Come up with a detailed, well researched holistic plan and we assure you, it will be done!

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We reiterate here our proposal for Dagupan City to construct a new city hall in the aborted   Metro State-Bugnay building. If Mayor Al Fernandez had succeeded in making savings, we sincerely suggest he put it in education. It’s the best thing for all of us.

NOTES: You see we are not a psychic, but we feel that the late President Ramon Magsaysay must be against constructing a private profit-motivated establishment on the Magsaysay Park, questionably converted into a market now known as Bugnay. But if a city hall will rise on that hallowed site, RM would be happy.

Don’t you think so?

(For past columns, click http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/archives/category/opinion/playing-with-fire/)

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