Manila, Oct. 8 -- A ranking official of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF ELCAC) hailed Tuesday the Department of Education (DepEd) memorandum ordering the closure of 55 Salugpungan schools in the Davao Region.
"That's the appropriate thing to do. It's not about permits or compliance to requirements but the morality of maintaining it knowing that it is destroying our indigenous children," Major General Antonio Parlade Jr., said in a statement sent to the Philippine News Agency.
Parlade also slammed the ranking officials of these so-called Salugpungan schools for not telling the public that many of the alternative learning centers are located near DepEd schools and that their real goal is not to educate the...