HYPOCRISY OF PRIVATE SCHOOLS

It is utter hypocrisy for private schools, particularly, COCOPEA, Atty. Estrada and Fr. Tabora to allege "...adverse financial impact of the implementation of the K to 12 program on private higher educational institutions (HEIs)." The private schools led by COCOPEA in the very first place, were the ones who drafted the K to 12 bill and pushed for the enactment of the law for their own private selfish interests (in conspiracy with DepEd and some legislators), as they made it sure that through said despotic and anti-democratic program, they will rake huge profits from government funds which will be paid to them instead of being used to build more classrooms, produce more books and increase the salaries of teachers. Fr. Tabora certainly remembers what he posted last January 18, 2011 as follows, "At a well-attended emergency meeting last night in the German Club convened by Jose Campos of PAPSCU, Chair of the COCOPEA Committee on Legislation, and by Fr. Joel Tabora, S.J., Chair of the COCOPEA Committee on Advocacy, the earlier-formulated draft of Proposed Legislation on the Implementation of K+12 was discussed and approved with relatively minor changes incorporated in the text below. Prior to the meeting, Fr. Tabora had spoken with Brother Armin Luistro on the drafted Bill; this draft represents substantially a framework of the K+12 reform. Atty. Estrada, who drafted and re-drafted the legislative proposal, will meet with the legal people of the DepEd in order to assure maximum coordination between the COCOPEA and the DepEd. The hope is that our Education President, Benigno Aquino III, shall certify this Bill as urgent" (https://taborasj.wordpress.com/…/proposed-bill-implementin…/).