P150B for flood control; 3 million children of school age left behind

If you can sleep soundly at night with these two irreconcilable realities — a P150-billion budget for “flood control”  next year and  more than 3 million children of school age unable to attend classes for 2020-21  for lack of resources — I have no words to describe your moral compass. No matter how you look at that kind of tortured priorities, it is both depressing and sickening to say the least. The overriding goal of education is, “No child left behind.” As the country’s unprepared public schools open on October 5, around 3 million children of school age would be shut out of the country’s public schools.

And we are talking about free public education, a constitutional mandate, not the British School/International School type of basic education that runs close to P1 million per student per year.