Teachers’ teams over the weekend denounced a reported order by the Department of Education altering the time period “Diktadurang Marcos” to “Diktadura” within the new curriculum for elementary college students.
The transfer was stated to have been supplied for in a September 6, 2023 DepEd memorandum protecting Araling Panlipunan for sixth-grade college students.
In an announcement, Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) Representative and House deputy minority chief France Castro stated it was an “attempt to erase the culpability” and “deodorize” the identify of Ferdinand Marcos Sr.
She referred to as it “a clear revision of history and an insult to the countless victims of human rights abuses and atrocities committed during the martial law period.”
GMA News Online has reached out to DepEd Undersecretary and spokesperson Michael Poa to substantiate the supposed memorandum, however has but to obtain a response as of this posting.
Castro stated the memorandum is a violation of Republic Act 10368, which supplies reparation and recognition of human rights violations in the course of the Marcos regime.
Her sentiments have been echoed by academics group Congress of Teachers/Educators for Nationalism and Democracy (CONTEND), which referred to as on the sector to reject the DepEd’s transfer which it described for instance of disinformation the place persons are “deliberately misled by manipulating facts.”
“In a memo dated September 6, 2023, DepEd is set to change ‘Diktadurang Marcos’ to ‘Diktadura’ in the Grade 6 Araling Panlipunan curriculum of the newly launched Matatag curriculum,” it stated in an announcement, referring to the revised Kindergarten to Grade 10 (Okay-10) curriculum of primary training launched by the DepEd final month.
“[There] is not any empirical information to assist the DepEd’s determination. In reality, a plethora of historic proof justify the categorization of 1972 to 1986 because the interval of Marcos dictatorship,” CONTEND stated. — BM, GMA Integrated News
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