FOR TEACHERS....FOR STUDENTS...FOR LEADERS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

For Teachers........For Students......For the leaders of the Catholic Church

I met a dedicated teacher and a retired teacher at a mall this lunch time.....perhaps the dedicated teacher knew that I sympathized with their plight....so she told me quite bitterly, that their salary had not been increased for 3 years....and that they were currently, one of the least paid teachers...... What made her emotional pleas more significant, was that she was a teacher in a very expensive Catholic School. 

I have three kids in my alma mater and their accumulated tuition fee is more or less 300K . .......Aside from feeling bad myself as I fear for the future of the tuition fees, further speculating at how even more expensive, it may soon become.....I felt so bad for the teachers......

You want better education for the students, get excellent educators....you want excellent teachers, you pay them well....you give them what they so richly deserve.....If we truly believe that the youth are our chance and our hope for a better country, then we need good and dedicated teachers to train them, to teach them, to guide them.........

The next question.....will increasing teacher's salaries automatically translate to immensely expensive tuition fees?......I say NO!.......I know of private schools with tuition fees half of what my school asks for, and they are able to offer the same or even better teacher's salaries.....so again, No......if schools, esp. Catholic schools would focus on providing excellent education while teaching Christian values like love and compassion.... Focus more on this, than on earning money.... Lots of money......they will realize that a lot can be achieved with just dedication and love.........

These past 2 months, I have feared for the teachers' and for my children's future.......I hope the Leaders of the Catholic hierarchy can do something quick, please lead and teach by example, not just through sermons and press releases........you may wake up one day and find a severely depleted Catholic flock...... I was born a Catholic and will die a Catholic because my faith rests on God alone not on people who pretend to speak for him, but not everyone's faith may be as strong..... More will be disgruntled, disillusioned.... and some may lose Faith even in God.....and the Catholic Hierarchy will only have themselves to blame.............

Again........I continue to sympathize with all teachers, your salaries should be so much higher than call center agents and government employees like those from MWSS......and I continue to fear for the education of my children.... 

I will pray tonight, I will pray tomorrow morning..... I will pray each night and each morning......I will say Novenas....until everyone involved is enlightened and does the right and compassionate thing..........God bless all of us !