Filipino youth groups are calling on lawmakers to address the pressing issues affecting the educator sector instead of prioritizing measures seeking to make the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) mandatory.
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Youth oppose NCSTP as the ‘new face of brutal mandatory military training’
“Nationalism should not be forced.”
On National Students’ Day, PUP reiterates opposition to mandatory military training
The protest amplified their call against the mandatory Reserve Officers Training Corps (MROTC) and for a safe, accessible, and quality school opening.
Back to the past: The return of ROTC
If indeed the Marcos II administration intends to bring back the past by, among other means, making ROTC mandatory again, 21 years after it was made an NTSP elective, it could start by first instituting the needed reforms in the program to prevent or at least reduce the corruption, abuses and violence that many associate with it.
‘PMA cadet’s death teaches us to oppose military training’ – youth groups
“If hazing is happening in the Philippine Military Academy, how much more if ROTC is revived?”
Usapang ROTC
Pasulong, ‘kad! Kaliwa, kaliwa, kaliwa, kanan, kaliwa.. Para sa mga nagnanais na maging pangangailangan (requirement) muli para makapagtapos sa kolehiyo ang Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC), simple’t maikli lang ang tanong ko: Handa ka na bang aksayahin ang oras mo? Naabutan ko po ang panahong lahat ng mga lalaking estudyante ay kinakailangang kunin ang apat…
Advocates slam fast tracking of 2 ‘anti-children’ bills
“We are very much enraged! The Duterte government has been consistently violating children’s rights from poverty, neglect of social services, ‘Oplan Tokhang’ to incarceration of children in conflict with the law and now they are militarizing schools and teaching children and youth to be blind followers.”