LINGAYEN–It’s time to learn Pangasinan history.

The provincial board passed a resolution this week asking the different schools divisions in the province under the Department of Education to incorporate Pangasinan history in the primary and secondary school curriculum.

The resolution has been referred to the Committee on Education of the provincial board for further discussion on Monday.

Under the resolution, elementary and high school students will be taught basic information about the province’s history, including its heroes.

Vice Gov. Marlyn Agabas and Sixth District Board Member Tyrone Agabas, primary sponsors of the resolution, noted that students in Pangasinan today do not even know how many congressional districts or municipalities and cities there are in the province.

“Through this move, we can provide them basic knowledge about Pangasinan,” Agabas said in an interview.

Schools division superintendents of Pangasinan divisions I and II, Atty. Armando Aquino and Dr. Alma Ruby Torio, respectively, have reportedly expressed support to the proposal.

Meanwhile, another resolution has been put forward that aims to educate students about the political structure in the country.

“Whatever national positions for officials in the actual elections voted upon, from the president, vice president, congressman, governor, vice governor, board members, mayor, vice mayor, and councilors, should also be the positions to be elected in the student bodies,” said Agabas, author of the resolution.

She added that this proposal will prepare the young when they reach voting age.

“In order to inculcate in the minds of the students in the province the hierarchy of elective positions in the provincial and municipal governments, it would be both practical and desirable  for  such student  bodies to replicate the elective positions in the national, provincial and municipal governments,” she said.#

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