Hello guys, I’m Ashley Jaurigue, I’m 16 years old and I live in San Pablo City, Laguna. I am currently studying at Liceo de San Pablo and I’m a Grade 11 student. Here’s my opinion on having a mandatory ROTC for Senior High School (SHS)
I am not in favor of having a mandatory ROTC for the senior high school. Because there are strands that is having a lot of subjects that is need to be focus. In our school here in Liceo de San Pablo every strand has a maximum of 10 subjects and their class starts from seven o’clock in the morning to until four o’clock in the afternoon and sometimes we have a class until five o’clock. There is no time for the senior high school students of doing the ROTC. Because there some students of senior high who don’t have free time because of the Immersion and it’s like an On the Job Training (OJT). Senior high also have a Research or Thesis that need to be focus on, because there are students who suffer on not successful on defending their Thesis. We students also have a lot of performance task on every subject that we did not expect that it would be given to us at the same time. There are students who failed or have a low grade because they lack of time doing their task and project. But some students are failing because of procrastination and absenting attitude that result to have a failing grade.
Maybe ROTC can help students improve their physical ability, but it can also be a struggle for us because we have a lot of task that we need to do, and putting back the ROTC in SHS can lead some students on being stress. Because there are some students who lack knowledege and ROTC can be struggle for that person get his/her focus back on academics. Some students are tired of doing hard stuff and maybe the ROTC training can lead them to a much lazy student or vice versa. Maybe they can put the ROTC back in college but not in Senior High School because the students now are different to the other that have already experience ROTC.
