Emphasizing how education could prevent students from being recruited by terrorism groups, Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte urged parents and guardians to force children to attend school.
She stressed how quality education along with parents’ guidance could keep children from being vulnerable to terrorism during her speech in Koronadal City’s 83rd founding anniversary and the 23rd Hinugyaw Festival last Tuesday, Jan. 10.
Our goal is to equip our children and youth with conflict transformation skills and the strength and discernment to resist recruitment into radical and terror groups,
Duterte said.
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She also said that the Department of Education (DepEd) is working on a national peace curriculum serving as the agency’s long-term solution to insurgency and conflict in our country.
Education is a liberating force. I cannot overemphasize to all the adults [here in Koronadal], we must force our children to go to school. The Department of Education is implementing a stronger child protection mechanism in our school communities, another layer of defense against the recruitment and exploitation of children and youth,
she added.
Previously, Duterte said that DepEd has been working on a program with the title “National Culture for peace” in the basic education curriculum that would teach Kinder to Grade 12 students to become peace builders in communities who could discern which is right from wrong.
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