Tisa Speaks
Of all the numerous comments I received every time I have a column, one of the most personal in recent weeks is the reaction of Tisa Rodriguez on my column regarding the hilarious story of policemen acting as teachers in Metro Manila schools.
I find that program hilarious and funny, to say the least, because we have policemen acting as teachers in Metro Manila. I have to be specific about my commentary. It is the Metro Manila situation that I made comments on.
Tisa Rodriguez, the then-First Lady of Brig. Gen. Roland Rodriguez of the 4th Infantry Division of the Philippine Army based at Camp Evangelista, Patag, Cagayan de Oro City, made a very clear and explicit reaction to my column last week.
Tisa Rodriguez, the unofficial trainor of the commanding General of the Army division at Patag, Cagayan de Oro City complained that army personnel acting as teachers in the hinterland barangays are actually a boon rather than a bane of the fight against insurgency and the New People’s Army [NPA].
That is not only quiet true in one sense but extremely correct in another. The boondocks and the hinterland barangays are not the same as the Metro Manila situation. Therefore, the deployment of Policemen as teachers in Metro Manila is not entirely in the same reasonable ground as the deployment of Army personnel as teachers in the hinterland barangays where there are not only shortages of teachers but also an extreme shortage of classrooms.
Tisa Rodriguez was right in taking exception to my commentary if my reference was with deploying policemen or army personnel as teachers in hinterland barangays. I never meant it that way. We always need volunteer teachers in the hinterland barangays and the boondocks, be they army men or priests or volunteer social workers. But we don’t need them in Metro Manila.
Again, Tisa Rodriguez was correct in her commentary about volunteer teachers in the provincial barangays of the country. But then, again, I would stand my ground that having volunteer teachers in the uniforms of policemen in Metro Manila is nothing but commercialization and advertising to sweeten the image of the police director general.
Deployment of policemen around the campus gates in Metro Manila is the solution to curve criminality but never the pretentiousness of policemen in uniform getting into the classrooms in the Metro Police and acting as teachers to pupils in elementary schools. That is sheer hypocrisy. The hypocrites of the top echelon of the police hierarchy in Metro Manila cannot hide behind the skirt of teaching as a mode of curbing criminality.
In fine, Tisa Rodriguez and her army commander are correct. We should provide more teachers to the hinterland barangays to teach and encourage literacy among the populace in order to prevent a necessary indoctrination by the NPA. Surely, ignorance among the community leaders and members breed the swell-grounds of communist insurgency in the hinterlands. By educating the people of the beauty of democracy and informing them of their rights as individuals, I am sure that the communist insurgency would have no leg to stand on.
In the end, Tisa Rodriguez and her army husband will always be proven correct.
And in the end, the PNP chief of the country and of Metro Manila will always be proven wrong in that, the deployment of policemen as teachers in Metro Manila is a wrong move in the wrong direction.
The right move should be to deploy more policemen in and around the schools of Metro Manila and to deploy, inside and within the schools, more teachers who are more adept in teaching methods and instruction because that is where teachers are needed most.
Policemen should be deployed for police work and teaches should be deployed for teaching work. Let not the policemen meddle with the profession of teaching in the same way that teachers should not meddle with the profession of policemen.
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