Computer basics

BASIC facilities in numerous public elementary and secondary schools around the country remain sorely lacking. The construction of classrooms and proper toilets, provision of chairs and tables and a functional library, among other fundamentals to conducive learning, urgently need to be addressed by the government, specifically at the local level. Education is unarguably one sector that should be made priority by all the newly-elected officials of local government units (LGUs).

But at the same time, there is something else that has now become as basic as books that must be provided in the educational system: computers and the related knowledge for these tools. This is true not just for the government-run schools, but in private institutions as well. We are 13 years into the 2000 millennium. At its turn in year 2000, fears soared that computer software being used around the world would come crushing as a change in the first two numbers of the year was not factored into their design. All the dread proved unfounded and we are now well into an era of continuously evolving hi-tech gadgets where information is just a swipe and a finger’s touch away.

For local government units that are hard-pressed to provide even just the old basics for education, officials with political will can tap and coordinate with alumni associations and the private sector to help equip the public schools with the new basic that are computers.

Reading, writing and counting are no longer just the components of literacy. Graduates of secondary education have to be computer literate if they are to cope and flourish in this age of laptops and tablets and smart phones.

 

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Serious matter

THE government plan to allow US and Japanese military forces access to our bases, notably Clark and Subic, deserves further study as this is a serious matter. Move with caution, fellers.  Apparently, President Aquino had up come up with the idea in response to China’s widely perceived bullying in the form of Chinese warships spotted sailing near our territories off the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) near Palawan.  Commendable, if seen in the context of the President’s latent love for country – thus treating the planned presence of the country’s allies in our bases politically correct?

But sovereignty could be compromised here.

Remember, we rejected America’s continued military presence in the country through that historic Senate act in 1991.  Bringing them back, together even with Japan’s forces, could pose more problems than solutions.

Let’s not rush matters, please?  As the saying goes, haste makes waste.

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