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ABSTRACT SUPPORT
JOHN CEDRICK NEMEÑO
Nowadays, students not only study but also learn other things through extracurricular activities (ECAs). ECAs are activities that are not directly related to the general purpose of school education but rather teach students a variety of things that later on become their hobbies.
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Like what happens at Bagong Silangan High School (BSHS) and other schools throughout Quezon City. Many students commit themselves to campus journalism to expand their knowledge about the issues that surround their community. Some says that it is a good avenue to see what is actually happening in the real world, where people can freely and openly discuss ideas, debate, and point out the problems that need to be addressed.
However, it seems that the Department of Education (DepEd) ignores the request for a competent budget for public schools. Many student journalists in the past claimed that they personally provided the equipments they used in different press conferences even the laptops during the production of the school paper.
In addition, some students do not actually want to be campus journalists, but because Journalism is the only subject offered for the two highest sections in Grade 10 in lieu of T.L.E. (Technology and Livelihood Education), they are obliged to choose and participate in the regular training and be part of this extracurricular activity in spite of having no money to buy a camera, laptop, or any gadgets that should be used to be “the best” journalist. Is this how the Executive Department of the Philippines should really act? Or maybe they just don’t care much about extracurricular activities?
Therefore, if DepEd allocate more funds, the needs of the campus journalists could be addressed, they would be working more progressively and improving significantly. With their assistance, more campus journalists could have achieved their goals, more so they could be of service to their fellow students. The budget could have gone far, the campus journalists could have gone farther not just an abstract support.
