Teofista Vivar, Ruth Fuentes, and the other authors of the erroneous textbook "Asya: Noon, Ngayon at sa Hinaharap" are very disappointing. Instead of correcting their error-filled textbook, they still stand by their claim that the errors are minor. Quoting the Inq7.net: "Education Secretary Florencio Abad said the textbook's errors were more substantial than they had originally thought, and acknowledged Go for his exposé." Isn't it that these "authors" are supposed to be "very" educated (they actually have PhDs?).
The publisher of the book (Vibal Publishing house) gave a lame excuse that it is difficult to produce a textbook hence they would not recall the erroneous textbooks. According to Inq7.net, they didn't even corrected the errors in subsequent editions of the said book since its first publication. It is unfortunate that this erroneous book (and other substandard textbooks) can make millions of Filipino children misinformed.
Incompetencies like this should never be allowed. I hope that part of the pork barrel that the congressmen are hoarding will be used to correct this problem. Our elected legislators will help us right?
Heck, I'm probably still in denial.
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this story makes me sick. i wonder if the ed. dept. can just buy the electronic verison and then put up for bidding printing of hard copies(open even to your neighborhood xerox machine)...or better yet put it online for free. i can volunteer as a fact checker.
I wonder where our bright historians went.
maybe I should invest in photocopying machines... :)
Two of the authors are employees of the DepEd?! At the very least the DepEd should sack these guys. More, DepEd should sue the authors and the publishing company.
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