Entrepreneurial Farmer

Ambrosio R. Villorente

Morality Crisis

The Department of Education and other institutions of learning had a very enormous tasks to perform. The Philippines does not have constitutional crisis, what it has is "morality crisis". The feud between the executive and the judiciary is morality related.

Of the children born in 2009, according to Mr. Blas Solidum of the National Census and Statistics Office, Kalibo, 48 percent are illegitimate.

This crisis is a menace to society, a great damage to home and family, to the community and the country. And this morality crisis is brought about by mal-education learned in schools, church, family and society. The nation starting from the family must reform with the view to rebuild damaged virtues, instil desirable virtues among the new generation, and the adults must exercise proper, good behaviour, good manners and right conduct.

In Kalibo, Aklan, a woman disappeared and reported missing by her family. Her husband, via the media, announced his offer of P50,000 to whomsoever can supply precise information that will lead to the recovery of his beloved wife.

About eight (8) months after her disappearance, her fast decomposing body tied with electric cord was found in the septic tank at the back of her residence in Poblacion, Kalibo on December 7, 2011.

Her husband is now the prime suspect. He is out of jail as there is no complaint filed against any alleged suspect.

In Tabon, Batan, Aklan, an 11 year old girl was found missing. After 24 hours of searching, her dead body was found. The Batan PNP revealed the young girl was sexually abused and stabbed to death. She was left in the most isolated and grassy place of Tabon.

In Lipag, Banga, Aklan, a six year old girl was bumped by an on-rushing tricycle on Sunday evening Dec. 11. The girl with her mother was walking by the road side when the tricycle driven by an intoxicated man bumped them.

The girl was pronounced dead on arrival in the hospital.

In Kalibo Pilot Elem. School, Kalibo, Aklan, a teacher left her bag on her table inside the classroom while attending to a certain matter by the corridor of the building.

A pupil from other class entered her room, asked a pupil near the teacher’s table to get the bag for him. The pupil refused which prompted that pupil of other class to box the boy, grabed the hand bag himself, and promptly left the room.

Inside the bag which the teacher lost were few thousand pesos cash; identity cards and personal belongings.

In the Aklan Rehabilitation Center in Nalook, Kalibo, Aklan, some people who visited their relatives complained of the ways the jail guards conducted security checks on them.

These jail guards could not have done it to them if in the past, no prohibited materials were smuggled in. There were some jail breaks as inmates destroy windows and doors with the use of smuggled tools. The behavior of the jail guards is influenced by the behavior of the inmates and their visitors. Jail visitors have no reason to complain against regulation but to obey it. There is no reason to be lenient in the enforcement of jail regulations which have been previously abused that led to prisoner escapes and drug addiction.

These incidents mentioned above proved the existence of morality crisis in Aklan in particular and in the Philippines in general.

Most people want special treatment. They wish enjoyment they do not deserve. They like to eat delicious food they didn’t produce. They want many other life’s amenities for free, to grab it by any means.

This morality crisis is placed on the shoulders of DepEd officials, teachers, and of other educational institutions. They must produce graduates who are really educated, men and women who can correctly act in any given situation. There is urgency to review the objectives of education and re-examine its curriculum with a view to develop all citizens into loyal and loving to their country, the Philippines.

The churches and our government leaders must "walk their talks". They must behave according to norms and strive to be models in "good manners and right conducts". Is good manners and right conducts still taught in schools?

I doubt, even our drivers don’t understand and practice road courtesy. /MP