TERMINATION OF SALUGPUNGAN SCHOOLS: DepEd's SIDE OF THE STORY

The issue on the SALUGPONGAN TA TANU IGKANUGON LEARNING CENTER (STTILC) has been trending over the summer of 2015 up to its 2^nd  quarter. Several protests have been made by different sectors including the Indigenous People that had been brought to the city for the purpose of showing the public how bad and how inconsiderate the Department of Education is. The issue does not only reach the city but also to the international community and now gains sympathy from most of its spectators. It blown up out its proportion and it seems like the agencies of the government has been mum about it. Thus, the people protesting are fueled and feel that they are right with what they are saying.

Based on history, the SALUGPONGAN TA TANU IGKANUGON is founded by the tribal leaders and it means “unity of the people to defend the ancestral domain.” From this noble beginning, the organization has evolved and the tribal leaders who founded it were replaced by people not coming from the hinterlands but people coming from the city. Its decent purpose is replaced by awful ideologies-- ideologies that violated the rights of the IPs and abused their ancestral domain.

Clearly, as shown in the videos made by KILAB Multimedia, there is no question that the now STTILC is poisoning the minds of the IPs especially the kids. There is no question that included in their curriculum is the teaching of Marx, Lenin and Mao of communism. There is no question that they want to instill hatred in the mind and heart of the IPs against the government. By this kind of conditioning, they will gain sympathy and there is no question that they will be hailed as heroes of the IPs, is an exact opposite of the truth.

With this video, at least, the “other truth” will come out and will let the public decide which is more reliable and true. This does not only give chance to the Department of Education to air their side of the story but to at least provide the public a clearer picture of what really happened, and to swerve the people into believing the truth behind malicious propaganda.