Wazzup Pilipinas!?
Kabataan party-list lawmaker Raoul Manuel on Wednesday cast doubt on a poll showing that 78% of Filipino adults want mandatory ROTC restored, pointing to the poll's wording and saying students should have been the majority surveyed.
The Pulse Asia poll was commissioned by Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, the chairperson of the Senate basic education panel and an advocate for the return of mandatory ROTC. The pollster said it surveyed 1,200 Filipinos nationwide aged 18 and above.
8 out of 10 or more Filipinos are in favor of the controversial proposal to revive the mandatory ROTC program in the country, as opposed to the number of those bucking it, according to a Pulse Asia Survey.
Weeeeee... yong totoo! Noong college nga ako. Majority of my male classmates abhor ROTC. I have not talked to any student who is willing to take ROTC.
Bakit hindi kasama ang 18 below? Sila kasi ang magtetake ng ROTC. Hindi naman above 18. Wrong target population naman yan. Sana tinanong nyo naman yng mga Senior High School Students who are about to take that ROTC kagaya ng anak ko. Your survey is a big LIE.. . FALSE ASIA. Nonsensical.
If there’s something that needs to be fixed, remove the 2 extra years that robs the parents those people who are paying for the tuition of those K12 kids made it well without the whatevers of K12.
They can't see and feel (yet) that HAZING had been and will again become part and parcel of the ROTC. FALSE sense of nationalism and patriotism ang ROTC, tingnan ang BREED of FILIPINO POLITICIANS ngayon na halos lahat nag-ROTC. Nakakasuka, kawalanghiyaan nilang corruption and pillaging of the nation.
If a newspaper wanted to provide proper context, it should have started this with "A Pulse Asia survey commissioned by senator so-and-so says..." - it tells us that a public official had motives in putting this survey out, and the public can tread carefully when reading results. Presenting this story with "More Filipinos are in favor... " is quite misleading. Smh.
I wonder who were the ones that got surveyed. Probably the older generation who paid to finish CAT/ROTC and not the younger generation.
Of the 1200 respondents, how many are
-parents who want to delegate the responsibility of teaching kids discipline & nationalism to the government
-adults who were once ROTC/CAT officers
-adults who no longer have to take ROTC
-sellers of army fatigues, boots, & accessories
Where did they find the pool of respondents? The range of ages above 18 is huge, for all we know they surveyed non students too. Also, 1200 people barely represents the general Filipino population.
Aside from the results, may he also disclose the number of respondents by demographics (age, gender), by course and yr level and by school if ever?
Why commission a survey when you can directly ask all HEI's their enrollment on NSTP where ROTC is one of it's components aside from CWTS and LTS? Is the sampling of 1,200 respondents more accurate than the former? What are your samplings? Students or the common masa who rarely know better? 78% in favor?
If you are confident that most Pinoys are in favor of ROTC, make it optional. Let's see if there are more than 78% who will be joining. That would be the real survey!
Btw, Did Gatchalian attend ROTC? He paid for the survey, what results can you expect? Reveal the questions. Were the students and parents asked about the cost of uniforms and the transpo & food to be spent by the parents? Most likely not.
The parents are also not the correct respondents to the survey. The youth will surely be against it. Should Parental consent be the primary question?
As far as I know, students who are undergoing ROTC are from Senior High School and College Levels. Meaning, they are no longer minors to be "supervised". They know what thay are signing-up for and they have their own mental capacity to decide for themselves.
Better yet, Filipinos who want to revive ROTC should apply as reservist themselves. Maybe, we won’t need to force others because we’ll have enough numbers.
Again, nobody believes this “commissioned” surveys. Reeks of lutong macao. What if one paid to skew data to ensure the results go into the direction they prefer? Kung ikaw ang kinomisyon, alangan naman taliwas results mo dun sa nag-commission eh kung hindi magbayad?
Mind conditioning na naman ang ganitong survey/news report. Using surveys to sway public opinion again and again and again. One of the examples of using Statistics to serve an agenda.
I don`t believe in survey, it can be manipulated especialy in our country where politician don't have any integrity. They always used survey to justify their motives wether it is moral or bad.
I went througj ROTC. I would not want it for our kids, grandkids, great grandkids, and so on.
If ever passed, ROTC training should include disaster preparedness, assistance, control and management, survival, first aid as well as road traffic education, assistance, control and other community assistance involvement. Itigil na yung kalokohang pagbabad sa init ng araw.
Ross is known as the Pambansang Blogger ng Pilipinas - An Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Professional by profession and a Social Media Evangelist by heart.
