Burat: Textbook learnings for make benefit glorious nation of Philippines

_{^— The chicken was dressed. They stripped off her feathers, served her quite bare and everyone poked at her breast. ^— Open door on back of camera, place film and close camera door. ^— Choke: stop breath by blocking the windpipe. The baby was choke from eating biscuits. ^— Mt. Makiling is located along the borders of Laguna and Tayabas. Beetles eat trees. The bat licks itself like a cat; after washing up, it flies away. Not all mountains are made by wrinkles in the ground. City of OXACA in Mexico ( 7 times ). ^— God’s footsteps bulged the mountains up. God like morning bending over her baby kneeled down in the dust. ^— Because you made a fool of me, you’ll get the greatest wrath. I’m afraid of the wrath of the stem. ^— The mayor can pave the construction of the building. ^— His wits, hope and reason to live sent himself to school. He became the primetaker of his family’s farmland. ^— The lakes widdled down in the hollows of the ground. The hen walked coquetly. When he smells something foul, it makes him squirmish. The potato pursued a disapproving lip. ^— On Basilio’s skull, fire nicked. The tiny fire had a blow, huge and quick. He touched the fire on his skull. Past all that is beyond, he runs. Guavas hang ripe from the trees; they leap from branch to branch, like the fleet of butterflies. Sisa runs out of the town in the woods, runs into the gate. She cries with joy and in that joy dies.}

11. _{FILIPINO BOOK – I}

_{^— Dumating ang mga Amerikano sa bansa dahil sa digmaang Cubano at Kastila. Hindi makakalimutan ng mga Pilipino ang katagang “I shall return” ni MacArthur. Isinakatuparan niya ito hanggang sa tuluyan na nila tayong masakop. ^— Napatunayan sa pag-aaral na ang mga babae ay limang ulit na higit na madalas ang pag-iyak kaysa mga lalaki. Ang pag-iyak na ito ay nagaganap sa pagitan ng ikapito at ikasampu ng gabi. Maituturing na ito ang mga oras na nagaganap ang di-pagkakaunawaan sa pamilya at nakakaramdam ng kalungkutan ang karamihan. ^— Ang La Union ay nasa sentro ng Gitnang Luzon at mga lalawigan sa hilaga. Ito ay bulubundukin ( mountainous ) at simula hilaga hanggang timog ang mga kapatagan (plains). ^— Ang Tawi-Tawi ay nasa dakong hilagang-kanluran ( northwest ) ng Pilipinas. ^— Ang Laguna ay may malapad na palayan. ^— Mga Larong Nagtuturo ng Disiplina: Taguan, Pagpapalipad ng Saranggola. ^— Mga Larong Gaya-Gaya: Bahay-bahayan, Basketbol, Sopbol. ^— Komisyuner. Sori. Inhinyeriya. Pokus sa Tagatanggap (Benepaktib). Pokus sa Lugar (Lokatib). Pokus sa Sanhi (Kawsatib). Gol Pokus. Aktor Pokus. Kamping. Tenis. Iskrabol. Balibol. Iskursyunista. Adres. Bulitin bord. Kimika. Aldyibra.}

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_{People think I’m proud for not cooperating with the DEPED in correcting the errors which I myself exposed, but if you were in my place, would you? Despite the fact that academicians tasked by the DEPED to review “Ang Bagong Pilipino” found 9 conceptual errors, 20 factual errors and 47 language errors, they still gave it a rating of 90% to 94% for “CORRECTNESS” ! Is this the New Math? Nine conceptual errors in a single textbook is very grave indeed ! In reality, “Ang Bagong Pilipino” contains no less than 100 errors. The DEPED said that the percentage of “CORRECTNESS” of the seven books in the new Social Studies series approved for use in public schools this year —- according to my findings all defective —– range from 90 to 99.48. WAWWEEWAH !!! This is magic and miracle rolled into one !!!}

_{And now this. In an article ( “Palace cancels bid results for Php 1.3 Billion in textbooks” ) published in the June 8 issue of the Inquirer, Education Secretary Jesli Lapus had this to say about an incident which happened in 2004, when the textbook “Asya : Noon, Ngayon at sa Hinaharap” was removed and withdrawn from all public schools as a result of my expose : “After an evaluation, we found not so many factual errors which did not warrant a recall.” In trying to discredit me, Sec. Lapus ended up discrediting his predecessor, former Sec. Florencio Abad, who was the one who ordered the recall, not I. His decision was upheld by the entire bureaucracy of the Department of Education, with not one member of its vast army dissenting. If there were “not so many errors found,” why did it necessitate the issuance of “errata that had to be inserted in each of the affected textbooks” ?}

_{Galileo, using a telescope he made himself, observed that the four moons of Jupiter revolve around that planet—- exactly, he inferred, the way Copernicus said that the earth revolves around the sun. His discoveries caused an uproar because his observations went against conventional beliefs about the workings of the universe. The Church condemned him because his ideas challenged its teaching that the earth was the center of the universe. Galileo was tried by the Inquisition in 1633. Threatened with death unless he recanted and abandoned his “heresies,” Galileo agreed to publicly state that the earth stands motionless at the center of the universe. But as he was leaving the court, he is said to have muttered, “And yet it moves !”}

_{The May 22 issue of the Inquirer carried a photo showing Sec. Lapus painting chairs and tables at one public school in Mandaluyong. He should instead channel his energy to cleaning the books our children are using, textbooks that are dirty beyond belief for the tons of grime and garbage they contain. No amount of whitewashing will make these errors go away. The DEPED, the IMCS, writers and publishers can deny the existence of these errors all they want, file harassment suits one after the other against me, assassinate my character to their hearts’ content, even threathen me with death. They have forgotten that even the lowly snake is a thinking, feeling being. Sensitive to the merest quiver of the ground, they abandon their holes at the first sign of an earthquake. We humans were assigned a higher place in the hierarchy of God’s creations, astounding even God Himself with our wit, wisdom and intelligence. We perceive, we discern the movement of the planets, the perturbation of stars in galaxies far, far away. And so, there will come a day of reckoning, because the people know. They know it moves. Yet it moves !}

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