It was not that fun learning from a public school when I was younger for contending many things more than one

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Elementary pupils walking going home after class.

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About a year after my father's house was built which I will not specify when it happened in the early 80's, I was enrolled by my mother to our Barrio's primary school as an already grade 1 pupil. That primary school only has one to four grade levels and so I was immediately put into the first grade without much preparation. It was my mother who taught me how to write my name when she has the time like when she takes a break for her laundry, then she will go to me and help me write my own name until of course I've the hang of it especially in the first grade and the second grade where I started to write like you would if you are writing a letter by hand with the letters attached together. My first teacher draws apples and oranges and all that visual representation of a word like for example, she would draw an image of an apple unto the blackboard and write the word of apple which we would read to learn how we associate words to an object.

Learning how to read and memorize the sets of consonants actually intimidated me because it is all written in a long Manila paper on a stand like you would handle a boon on its bounded side with its pages dropping and the teacher has to pull one page up and back to the other side of the side so you can read the next sets of consonants along with the vowels which is exactly like this, "A E I O U, Ba Be Bi Bo Bu, Ka Ke Ki Ko Ku, Da De Do Do Du and so on. However the ABC's or Alphabet at that time in our decade was still not modern so it is read like so A Ba Ka Da E Ga Ha I La Ma Na Nga O Pa Ra Sa Ta U Wa Ya unlike in our modern day where it is like the English Alpahabet but with some consonants like C, Ng, Q, X, Z and Ñ. Well practice makes perfect so after a while I learned my ABCs which later was changed by the Commission on Education depart of the PH government to maybe cope with the changing times when it comes to adopting English letters as part of my country's vocabulary.

Learning back then was not that fun because I guess that we are not taught enough in school from my primary and up to the other school in the next Barrio where I spent my last two years in Elementary. I could say that I did missed a good experience going to private school where the teachers are said to making it sure that the pupils will learn as told by my sister in law when she was conversing with my mother and other family members. So going in public elementary schools in those years in the 80's was a big regret to me and we have no choice because my parents have no budget to send us to a private elementary school considering we are four siblings. However it was my sister that went to a private elementary school because I guess that my mother doesn't her to go to the public elementary school too.

My grade "V" or five teacher is quite funny if you would try to imagine it because she actually has a snack store in-front of her classroom. In elementary schools it was the pupils that goes to the classroom and not the teachers where the teachers have a fixed classroom which they stay. My grade fifth elementary school teacher is making a small business out from students because she actually has a stall of anywhere from ballpens to snacks and drinks to which she uses two of my classmates to serve as clerks which I think doesn't get paid. If you think about that instance, you will definitely say that it is illegal and that is a no-no with today's standards here in my country. In here class I think she taught some knitting work which is why I saw my brother doing it with a yarn and that pair of hooked metal they use for manual knitting although I can't remember if I also did that myself when I was under her grade five class or anything else except for reading some books.

Well that particular grade fifth teacher of mine also sucks about her profession or lack of doing it properly and legally because of basically everything she did in our class back then where sometimes a few of us her pupils are sent carrying a pail or two to a house a few hundred feet from the class to fetch back a heavy pail of water which we get from an artesian well. I can still remember how heavy those pails are filled with water. So what the teacher does with those water, she uses them to make a refreshment drink on the next day of her class. Thinking about it now makes me angry because we are not only taught as we should but is actually abused to serve as slaves for her business which nobody in the whole of education authorities back then ever lift a finger to at least stop it but they just tolerated it because after all, the district administrators cannot monitor what was happening in their set of schools which they manage.

In my grade six year, my teacher would make us write all day and if there is a night time class, she would make us write all night as well. It is because if the district or regional superintendent is said to visit her class, she would make us look busy by making us write until we drop so to speak. Well it made me practice my writing work and keeping up tailing with one of the fastest pupils in our class with a beautiful penmanship too but writing for hours at a time. One of my classmates was appointed to be the one writing endless words and paragraphs from one of our books and unto the blackboard which we copy to our notebooks and it is both tiring and time consuming without any of our class learning just because our grade six teacher along with other teachers are just crap. By the way, there are two grade six teachers at that time an the other one also sells rice gruel and drinks every single morning everyday if there is class, she just made a lot of money back then.

The corporal punishment is still prevailing in those years. However the students that got spanked now didn't mind that now and maybe even thanking the teachers that they did it. But for us pupils back then it just taught us not to do stupid things or else we will get literally hurt. I saw one pupil in the other class got spanked hard and it just frightened the hell out of me because he got the full beating on his buttocks with a flat stick. I can't remember if I did saw or remember some girl pupil being spanked but most are boys especially if they would fight one another with a fist fight, then they will know what is coming. My own teacher in the grade six class once pulled my sideburns one day for a punishment that I can't remember, there were many of us mainly boys form her class. In that instance she is pulling our sideburns one after another while asking the question if it hurts or not. You would typically say that it hurts of course and she would tug it even more if you said "Yes" but if you would say "no" then she will let go. Then as I went home I told it to my mother not to complain about it but to just say the story of it, but my mother got angry to the teacher so she told it first to one of my distant relative who is also a teacher and knows my teacher where she told my mother not to confront the teacher to prevent "uneventful" things from happening and so our relative just told her "they" (my relative and my other primary school teacher which are both my neighbors) would be the ones to tell my teacher about my mother's complaint and so they did and after that I felt that my grade six elementary school teacher had been easy on me from that point.

With regards to corporal punishment for school children in my opinion should not be done anymore because for one thing there is a law already in preventing it. However the children with their young age and vulnerable disposition must be disciplined in various ways for them to basically get some discipline on the way they must, for example behave in society or among their peers because a person with discipline of course will think twice on the outcome of their actions before they do it and it is much better than doing anything without regarding the outcome and it is dangerous to society as a whole for the reason that it may endanger something or some point in time. That is why guiding the young minds that will soon be an element of society is an utmost importance and it must be done with types of discipline so that those young minds will grow-up being able to do the right things and contribute to the progress of the nation. However it is not an ultimate factor in fashioning young minds in the best way possible because all of the things taught at school no matter how good the education system is will go to waste because it is also depends on how the parents themselves would raise the child especially now with the influence of the Internet, our kids are no longer like us when we were young, they had become more exposed to bad things more than the good that they get from it and it will cause the society of tomorrow very different that it might make the future times more hostile to humanity and I hope that it will not be like that but it is now already happening, just observe.

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