Before, I remember that scholastic awards, as symbolized by medals,
given to honor pupils or students were quite few. At most, for an honor pupil,
about 3 or 4 medals for outstanding curricular and extra-curricular
performances, combined.
I would assume that there was an institutionalized DepEd Code of
Awards as basis and for our schools have to confer them out yearly,
regularly, objectively. The awardee then was an object of appreciation. Every
medal impresses upon everyone of the honoree's beyond-ordinary abilities and
competence. Every medal means prestige; the awardee stands above the rest.
Recently, I observed that medals come and go. Unlimited. They were branded in various categories like: Leadership Award, Award of
Excellence, etc, etc. Obviously, some if not most, were courtesy of politicians, or aspiring ones, named after them or a dead person,
given out not yearly, but only when there are elections. Worse, there were no
criteria of selection, no verifiable results in the process of selection.
This being so, I would assume they were not part of that DepEd Code of
Awards. But why these were allowed or tolerated? This could be trivializing our
schools awards system, and the schools and children are being treated as their willing
victims.
IRONIES OF REALITY OR REALITY OF IRONIES?
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