FOUNDATION

JENNIFER D. MANINANG

The 1987 Constitution declares:

The State recognizes the vital role of the youth in nation building and shall promote and protect their physical, moral, spiritual, intellectual, and social well being in order to accomplish this, the Constitution obligates the State to” give priority to education, science and technology, arts and culture. The State must therefore-Establish ,maintain and support a complete, adequate and integrated system, of education relevant to the needs of the people and society.

The recent news of employing Chinese Nationals as carpenters in the high rise building of metropolis contradict to the dictum of our present Constitution that the State should establish, maintain and support a complete , adequate, and integrated system of education relevant to the needs of people and society.

According to former Undersecretary of Education Juan Miguel Luz that for those moving directly to the to the world of work, a whole range of business and technicalvocational could be offered along a number of different tracks: Technical-Vocational/Industrial Arts

Industrial automotive

Carpentry

Masonry

El ect r i cal

Machine Shop

Drafting

Computer Aided Design

Software programming

Industrial design

Business-r elated

Accounting

Business Mathematics

Marketing

Packaging

Small business start-up and management

Agribusiness related

Farming system

Fisheries

Aquaculture and Fishpond technology

Nursery management

Tree-farm technology

Hydr ophoni cs

Service Industry-related

Hotel and Restaurant management, industry training

Paralegal training

Secr et ar i al

Lubao is an agro-industrial area and strategically located between Clarck-Subic it has to be pattern after the economic and manpower needs of the area.

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The author is SST II at Remedios High School, Remedios, Lubao