Watch Out! We Got A Rick Scott Right Here!

Remember the douchebag named Rick Scott? If not, let me remind you of him here. Okay, so he said sorry after his daughter give him a tut-tut in public. Then why does he come up again?



It's because my country's Commission on Higher Education (CHED) is going to do the the same thing here in the Philippines.

A memorandum issued by the commission in September 2010 said that starting school year 2011-2012, there would be a moratorium on the offering of five programs: nursing, teacher education, information technology, business administration and hotel and restaurant management (HRM).

(Martin 2011, Manila Times; Read the whole article here).

So why bully these courses? Because CHED says the sheer number of graduates is too much for them to handle. Too many grads, not enough jobs. But you see, I'm in the opinion that they're missing the point here.

Not enough jobs? So we pop the balloon of these courses, another balloon will grow and then we pop that one too? Last time I heard, some schools don't even have enough teachers. And if they cut down students taking education, then where will the government get their teachers? And how about the long run? They put a moratorium now, and the next thing we know no one's going to attend to our mutilated legs and life and death crises in the hospitals.



Education, it's a business prospect for these people. College is a factory line. We are nothing but supplies that must fill the current demands.

They make life sound like a boot camp. And I thought they wanted to fight off communism (at least the communism used in China, North Korea and past USSR). Next thing we know they'll be deciding which food to eat, which brands to use, which things to like or which things to hate. Or wait, didn't they start doing that already to the general public?

*"Don't be scared. I'm just gonna hold your breasts. No big deal."*