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This documentary focuses on Section Darwin, a class of 29 high school students in Quezon City, Philippines who reached 7th grade without knowing how to read or write. Two of the students, 12-year old Louie and 15-year old Jack, struggled due to poverty forcing Louie to work and Jack often missing class. The teachers are doing their best to help the students learn basic reading and writing skills before advancing. The documentary serves as an eye-opener about the importance of support from both teachers and parents to help students continuously learn and improve, especially those facing difficulties.

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This documentary focuses on Section Darwin, a class of 29 high school students in Quezon City, Philippines who reached 7th grade without knowing how to read or write. Two of the students, 12-year old Louie and 15-year old Jack, struggled due to poverty forcing Louie to work and Jack often missing class. The teachers are doing their best to help the students learn basic reading and writing skills before advancing. The documentary serves as an eye-opener about the importance of support from both teachers and parents to help students continuously learn and improve, especially those facing difficulties.

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Manalang, May Raflor December

5, 2019

CIT Educ 115

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This documentary is set In Sauyo High School in Quezon City where there is
a class whose lessons are all about syllabicating words, writing the alphabet and
identifying colors. These lessons are typically for elementary level however this is
taught in the high school level. This is Section Darwin and apparently, all 29
students of the class reached Grade 7 without knowing how to neither read nor
write!

Twelve-year-old Louie and fifteen-year-old Jack are two of the students of


Section Darwin. Louie despite not being able to read or write, his teachers gave
him passing grades every year until he eventually made it to Grade 7. And for
Jack, he would often miss his classes until he eventually fell behind in terms of
writing and reading. Both of them are having a hard time reading even though
they are now in the high school level where concepts should now be taught
instead of basic reading.

In this documentary, the teachers in Sauyo High School in Quezon City were
trying their best to help the students cope with their situation and are helping
then to be able to read before going to the next level. In this documentary, we
can see that there are a lot of students that are in this situation as well. The
teachers in this high school are now doing their part and are chipping in to help
their students overcome their dilemma.

There are several reasons why the students were not able to learn how to
read. One reason would be poverty (for Louie) because instead of studying his
lessons the child has to work collecting rubbish which he can sell to help with his
family’s needs. This is the same for jack who was not given any allowances thus
often miss classes leading to falling behind in terms of writing and reading.
Another is the debatable issue is why do schools pass those considered as “non-
readers” o “slow readers”. Because of the performance criteria that were given to
the school that the basis of whether it is performing or not is the number of
students that are passing is also one reason what contributes to this problem.
Additional work to the teacher and pressure to pass the students even though he/
she is not yet ready according to the teacher’s assessment is also a contribut8ing
factor to this problem.

Even though this is now happening, instead of blaming the previous


teachers the high school teachers in the school are doing their best to fix the
problem. They are now putting their efforts to help the children overcome this
problem.

For me, this documentary serves as an eye-opener to all not only the
teachers but the parents as well. We cannot put the sole responsibility to the
teachers alone, learning is a continuous process, and therefore it should be
continued at home. Constant practice and guidance to the students can help
them improve. Certain ways can be done to help adapt to the situation and not
sacrificing the learner’s education. The school's criteria should also be modified in
a way teachers are not blamed or coerced to pass the students for the sake of
complying with the institution’s performance criteria and will truly help the
student.

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