There's a lot of questions on why and how will Br. Armin will be handling DepEd as its Secretary. Even the DepEd officers themselves oppose this decision by the president. they claim that Br. Armin would inspire more religious leaders to take up political posts or if him being in the cabinet would result to the violation of the constitution in the seperation of Church and State. Other than these numerous issues, its also questioned whether Br. Armin would be pro-sex education. And like what some of my professors have been saying during class whenever this topic came up, they would often say that Br. Armin was very liberal and if they would be guessing on which side he is leaning on to, it would be probably on passing the sex education.


Personally I think putting Br. Armin there would not be such a bad idea, (besides the fact that I'm a Lasallian) I'm also quite sure that he would do his job well based on what I see in DLSU right now. I can't really claim whether he is really a good person, or intelligent or something because I do not really know the person that well as I'm also quite sure those who critique him doesn't as well. I think the best thing to do now is trust the president's decision.

I've heard people that say that parents are the ones who should  teach their children on sex ed. These people believe that if it comes from the parents, it would not sound too malign and that it would sound more "appropriate." Some would think its better to teach sex ed at school, because it would appear "academically." Others would just say why bother.


Personally I believe that parents and the school should work together in this one. Parents would tend to feel awkward talking about these kind of things to their children that's why the school would be there. Still there are things the student want to ask but can't really ask the school for some reason, that's where parents come in. Other than that, parents are the ones who really should teach the morality on why there is sex ed, that having a family is something serious. The school can't really teach the child certain things a parent could.


I've mentioned on my previous posts that i'm for sex ed because its much more safer. Its also more assuring. In a conservative country like the Philippines, having sex outside marriage is always kept secret but not inexistent. Teaching sex ed would not only help people here realize these kind of things but be also aware of the consequences of these "taboo" in society.

I had a class this morning where we had this discussion on sexuality. The topic was
how come people would put malice on things that are, well, in nature did not really have any sexual
connotations. We talked about several things like Hayden's scandal, bananas, eggplants, bananas, bunnies,
and stuff like those. But one of the examples he gave kind of gave me an idea why a LOT of conservative old hag-- I mean people would worsen things for the lads and lasses with sexual regressions.

He told us he had two daughters who attended in an acquaintance party of a Catholic school. Of course there
were some dancing and music and the DJ happened to play the taboo music for the kiddies during that time; the
oh so enigmatic Careless Whisper. When the faculty members started to hear the famous starting tunes of the song
they rushed towards the DJ and immediately stopped the song from playing any further. The stopping of the music caused
a commotion and the students started to wonder why. After awhile students started chattering " Uyy, oo nga noh diba yan yung
kanta dun sa scandal ni Katrina chaka Hayden," which effectively informed the students, even those unaware of it, of the malice connoted with the song.

Its so ironic to think that the more you try to prevent a person from knowing something the harder it is to keep things from that person. The discussion ended with our prof saying that people in nature love to talk about sex, and with people trying to keep themselves "self-righteous" by keeping that desire boxed can be quite "dangerous" so to speak.

Relating this to the main issue of this website,  one of the objectives of the RH Bill is to basically give information about sex. And the best way to help young people to be aware of the consequences of early parenthood and unwanted pregnancies is to educate them about sex and how to be on the safe side of things.

Facing the reality of things, teenagers these days in our country aren't quite as innocent as mommy thinks. Maybe easing their curiosity would lessen those raging hormones, because I think the more you openly talk and KNOW more about those kind of things the less they would dare venturing on the "taboo."