THE decision to bring back the students to the classrooms could not have come at a better time.
Performance of our schools has suffered in surveys in our part of the world.
There is a marked decline in proficiency of our students on both English and Math.
The decline in learnings in language and numbers has become a problem even to parents.
Take this case of a friend whose son wanted to quit school, accusing his teacher of having gone crazy.
Son: Tay I am not going to school anymore. My teacher has gone nuts.
Tatay: How is that?
Son: Yesterday, my teacher said 4 and 5 make 9. This morning, she said 3 and 6 are 9.
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But in another friend, he tells of being congratulated for his son’s writing talent.
He was asked: Does he write for money?
My friend’s answer: Yes, in every letter.
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But this one is a winner.
Junjun’s teacher wrote to his mother. “Junjun is a bright boy, but he spends most of his time thinking about girls.”
The mother wrote back to the teacher. “If you find a cure, let me know. I’m having the same trouble with his father.”
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Fast thinking and acting are marks of a successful actor turned politician.
And those qualities I saw in Isko Moreno in an encounter in an elevator I was in.
Isko entered the elevator in a hurry and forgot to take off his hat.
One fussy aging lady inside asked:” Don’t you take off your hat to ladies?”
Isko replied: “Only to old ladies, Ma’am.”
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A successful owner of a chain of laundry shops filed his certificate of candidacy for mayor in next year’s election in a town in Batangas.
In an interview, he was asked: “How do you intend to fulfill your promise to wipe out corruption and cleanse the local government?”
“By being me. By clean living, sir, by clean living.”
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I got this from an insider. A congressional candidate in a new district in Laguna scolded his media operator cum secretary.
“Why did you write a long speech for me? Notice how people were almost asleep!”
The PR guy cum secretary replied: “Sir, it was not a long speech. I just made the mistake of giving you four copies of it.”
The PR guy got demoted, relegated to being just a keyboard warrior.
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My advice to this congressional candidate.
If you want people to listen with their mouths open, in awe, when you talk, you’re in the wrong trade.
You should be a dentist instead.