A NON-PERFORMING PUBLIC official, and considered the second highest paid in government, is doubtless the ICC jailbird ‘s daughter, Sara Duterte, the vice-president of the country.
Chosen to serve as the secretary of the Department of Education (DepEd) a few months upon her inauguration as vice-president, her first departmentorder to school teachers was called by many people,especially the teachers, “STUPID!”
Her order was to remove all posters and educational visual aids in the classrooms, reasoning out that these distract the school children and youth from paying attention and listening to the teachers.
STUPID DIRECTIVE
People considered this a “stupid directive” because, from time immemorial, classrooms especially for pre-school, kindergarten and grade school students, the alphabet and numbers, prominently displayed on the walls of the classrooms have served as helpful visual learning tools.
These remind the students daily of the fundamental building blocks of learning language/reading skills, and understanding the world of numbers and mathematics in daily life.
Posters of national heroes remind the children of national heroes (like Lapu Lapu, Jose Rizal, Andres Bonifacio, Emilio Jacinto. Antonio Luna, Diego Silang, et al) who lived exemplary lives of fighting for the country’s freedom and independence from the exploitation and oppression of past colonizers, Spain, the United States and Japan.
“People considered (Sara’s order) a “stupid directive” because, from time immemorial, classrooms especially for pre-school, kindergarten and grade school students, the alphabet and numbers, prominently displayed on the walls of the classrooms have served as helpful visual learning tools.”
ZERO CONTRIBUTION
VP Sara Duterte resigned from her job as DepEd secretary a few months later, leaving zero contribution of raising the country’s educational system to a simple notch higher to approximate international educational standards.
The classroom shortage of thousands, especially in the provinces, were not addressed. Countless schools werewithout the management and guidance of principals.
Severe lack of teachers was neglected.
Also unaddressed were the provision for necessary assistance to teachers, in their financial needs as well as materials/facilities (like laptaps) to facilitate their daily grind of making sure their students really learn from their active presence in the classrooms, or as required, in online teaching modes.
THE TRAVELER
VP Sara Duterte has been travelling around, particularly to the Hague, Netherlands, to visit her father, ICC jailbird, Rodrigo, who is awaiting trial for the charge of crime against humanity – for his Extra Judicial Killings (EJKs) of more than 30,000 Filipinos under his failed “War on Drugs – Tokhang.”
On certain significant dates, like on Christmas, or Rizal Day, VP Sara Duterte would issue public statements of advice to the Filipino people about observing the spirit of Christmas, and of celebrating and emulating the patriotism of the national heroes (“Hypocrite!”- Netizen comment).
Meanwhile, she is enjoying as the country’s vice-president – her millions-worth monthly pay-check. This appears to fit the cries in the streets, addressed to the ‘kurakut’ senators and congressmen, “Ikulong nayan!”
SHAMELESS BETRAYAL
As a non-performing government official, VP Sara Duterte has been found to be fooling the Filipino people from the start, since becoming vice-president.
As publicly revealed live-streamed on TV, the Congress’ Committees on Good Government have exposed the crimes of VP Sara Duterte – unexplained spending of more than P612 M of her budgeted confidential funds, malversation of public funds, betrayal of public trust, violation of the Constitution and other crimes.
She was impeached by the House of Representativeslast year, but the dominant pro-Duterte Senate archived it.
But today, as of March 2026, the House of Representatives has found the impeachment charges filed by civil society and other public officials as sufficient in form and substance.
The Senate will thus form itself as an Impeachment Court to try VP Sara Duterte for not doing her job as a public official, and shamelessly betraying the Filipino people.