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Education and Poverty: A Film Review

The documentaries featured explore the struggles that students in poverty face in obtaining an education through interviews and scenes. In remote and poor areas of the Philippines, children will travel long distances through dangerous conditions just to get to school. Poverty also affects teachers, whose low salaries sometimes force them to move abroad, leaving students without dedicated educators. While educational reforms have been adopted in most areas, schools in remote regions still struggle with issues like multi-grade classrooms and lack of resources. Unless more funding is provided to poor areas, poverty will continue trapping people in a cycle where literacy and education standards decline.

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Education and Poverty: A Film Review

The documentaries featured explore the struggles that students in poverty face in obtaining an education through interviews and scenes. In remote and poor areas of the Philippines, children will travel long distances through dangerous conditions just to get to school. Poverty also affects teachers, whose low salaries sometimes force them to move abroad, leaving students without dedicated educators. While educational reforms have been adopted in most areas, schools in remote regions still struggle with issues like multi-grade classrooms and lack of resources. Unless more funding is provided to poor areas, poverty will continue trapping people in a cycle where literacy and education standards decline.

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Education and Poverty:

A Film Review
From the documentaries:
I-Witness: ‘Tawid Eskuwela, by Jay Taruc
Reel Time: Isinulat sa Tubig
Investigative Documentaries: PAAralan
(TREADucation)
November, 2020 by Hanna Fey Loyola

The films were all about the struggle of the students to get the education they
deserve. The scenes in the films brought mixed up emotions - vulnerability
mostly. The documentary features interviews was expertly edited with articulate
students, teachers, parents, principals and the community. The music and sound
was a great choice for the theme of the documentaries.
In the opening scenes of the three documentaries poverty is obviously noticeable.
‘Kids with really poor parents are so desperate to go to school that they’re willing
to travel far and go through dangerous conditions to get there, like swim the
river, or walk barefoot for almost 3 hours just to get the education they deserve.
Getting to school is only the first hurdle.
Poverty doesn’t just affect the children – the teachers’ livelihoods inevitably
suffer. Sadly, many teachers are choosing to move abroad, after being tempted by
higher salaries. Inevitably, it’s the children that suffer. Teachers in the
Philippines aren’t just classroom facilitators. To children, teachers are seen as
heroes and leaders who are respected as much as their own parents. Teachers
have the authority. They’re so dedicated and will go through the same material
over and over again until everyone has learned it. They’d spend hours after school
teaching students. But they wouldn’t get paid extra for that. In fact some of them
used their own income for the expenses of learning materials needed for the
students learning support.
The educational system of the Philippines has been changed, new methodologies
and trends have already been adopted except for the schools in the most remote
areas in some region. Lack of classrooms: There are mixed grade level of learners
in one room (multi grade classroom) Teachers are trying their best to teach the
students despite the struggle in teaching these students. It is sad to know for so
many years administration is changing but the scenario that the students suffer
every day is still the same and existing. Poverty still remains and students agonize
the discomfort caused by challenges and danger as they go to school every day.
As the population continues to grow, and government spending on education
continually falls short, the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer.
Inevitably, literacy rates and other measures of education standards will fall as
more people are sucked into poverty. More resources are desperately needed.
They need to be channelled into the poorest areas. Low education and skill levels
of the poor already hinder the Philippines’ economic growth capacity. Corruption
means the status quo is maintained.

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