'Pathetic' PISA 2022 results could be avoided without red-tagging --- Anakbayan

Youth group Anakbayan on Wednesday, Dec. 6 expressed outrage on the "pathetic" performance of the Philippines in the 2022 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA).

The results on the PISA 2022 of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Tuesday, Dec. 5 presented "no significant improvements" in terms of the performances of Filipino students in mathematics, reading and science.

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Anakbayan said it "could have been avoided" if the current administration cease labelling students as "communists" and rather push for ammendments in the education sector to boost the youth's abilities.

"We expect that as government chips away at our academic freedom, holding redtagging forums and allowing university admin to step on the youth's right to organize and assembly, the youth's ability to think critically will further deteriorate," said Anakbayan.

Anakbayan also said it is a "failure" in the education system where students will be turned into workers who are to be exported in other countries.

"We urge our fellow youth to see this as a failure of our education system, which prioritizes turning students into docile workers who will churn out big bucks for capitalists and exports for sale to other countries instead of developing their latent potential," said Anakbayan.