Para magkaroon ng reporma sa edukasyon 

GINAMIT na halimbawa ni House Committee on Muslim Affairs Chairman at Lanao del Norte 1st District Rep. Mohamad Khalid Dimaporo ang naganap na pananambang sa kanyang probinsya upang ipakita ang kahalagahan na mareporma ang edukasyon sa bansa at matutugunan umano ito ng pag-amyenda sa Konstitusyon.

Ang tinutukoy ni Dimaporo ay ang pananambang ng teroristang grupong Dawlah Islamiyah-Maute involved sa mga sundalo noong Pebrero kung saan anim na sundalo ang nasawi. Ang nasa likod umano ng pananambang ay mga edad 15 na hindi man lamang marunong magsalita ng tagalog.

“What was worrisome about that ambush, there were pursuit operations, and If I’m not mistaken the leader of that ISIS group surrendered to the provincial government,” sabi ni Dimaporo.

“Bata pa sila, mga 15 years old. They can’t even speak Tagalog, they can speak only Maranao and that’s proof that these groups, these extremists are staying in the pinakabukid area, away from everyone. Now that is a symptom of a failure within the BARMM area,” dagdag pa nito.

“This is the failure of basic education, and I hope nobody will take offense to this. It’s an old historical culture or mindset that the Philippines is a Catholic country, therefore Catholic education. So, the very traditional mindset of Muslim Filipinos in the far-out areas might feel that they don’t trust bringing their kids to DepEd schools,” paliwanag ng solon.

Ayon kay Dimaporo mahirap na mareporma ang edukasyon dahil sa limitadong pondo kaya nais ng Resolution of Both Houses (RBH) No. 7 na payagan ang mga dayuhang mamumuhunan na pumasok upang matugnan ang problema.

“This brings us to the debates for RBH 7 … We’re really limited with funds in the government. If we are going to solve the Madaris issue within the BARMM, ang daming pondo rin ang kailangan ng education, I think they were saying P300 billion last night. This is why we need partners in development,” sabi ng kongresista mula sa Lanao del Norte.

“And when you open up our Constitution to provide more opportunities for foreigners to come and help our far-flung areas, and one specific example is the Muslim world, Saudi Arabia, ang daming pera, Brunei, Malaysia. And in Islam we have one of the religious requirements of Zakat, which is like charity,” saad pa nito.

Naniniwala si Dimaporo na hindi matutugunan ng military solution ang problema sa BARMM.

“It’s an investment for ourselves, for our religion, to come into the Philippines and help establish proper Madaris system so that our children in Muslim areas can read and write Arabic and not be thrown into areas where they will end up being recruited by terrorist organizations,” sabi ni Dimaporo.

“What happened in Lanao del Norte, the attack, the surrender of the ISIS leaders, brings to light again the problem that we have and how do we solve that solution,” dagdag pa nito. (END)