In fact, this will only prolong all these problems for another two years. As Felipe, a professor at the University of the Philippines and former deputy minister of education, and Porio, executive director of the Fund for Private Education Assistance (FAPE), put it, "Many educators seem to expect too much from 12 years of teaching. ride a bike. More likely, extending the cycle is such a concrete step that it makes them feel like they are doing something to fix a broken system” (Calderon 2014). Currently, with the ten-year program, the lack of classrooms and schools is already glaring. Research by Cyril John Barlongo of the Business Mirror, a Philippine business newspaper, showed that "the new curriculum requires 30,000 new classrooms." The reality of public education in the Philippines is a nightmare for the working class and oppressed masses. As Ronald Meinardus (2003) stated in The Crisis of Public Education in the Philippines: "With 95 percent of all primary school students attending public schools, the education crisis in the Philippines is fundamentally a crisis of public education” (Calderon 2014). ) Public schools cannot refuse students when they show up to register. To cope, many public schools have crammed as many students into the classroom as possible, with classrooms packed with chairs from wall to wall. Excerpt from the article Dilapidated, overcrowded