ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro (left), Vice President SaraDuterte (PPAB, Facebook)

House Deputy Minority Leader ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro couldn't help but take a jab at Vice President Sara Duterte on the latter’s way out as DepEd secretary. 

"Sa wakas ay nag-resign na din sa DepEd si VP Sara. Sana ay mas maaga niya ito ginawa para makapaglagay ng isang kalihim ng DepEd na galing talaga sa sektor ng edukasyon at alam ang kanyang ginagawa," Castro, a member of the Makabayan bloc, said in a statement Wednesday afternoon, June 19.

(Finally VP Sara has resigned from DepEd. She should have done this earlier so that someone from the education sector who knows what he or she is doing could have been installed as DepEd secretary.) 

"Nasayang ang mahigit dalawang taon para ayusin agad ang education crisis sa bansa at benepisyo at sahod ng mga guro at education support personnel," the teacher-solon said, referring to the Vice President's tenure at the department. 

(The two years that could have been used to fix the education crisis in the country as well as the benefits and salaries of teachers and education support personnel all went to waste.) 

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Castro added that the resignation was "long overdue". 

Earlier Wednesday, Vice President Duterte personally went to Malacañang to tender her resignation as DepEd chief, as well as vice chairperson of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC). 

"In resigning her post from the NTF-ELCAC, we hope that the red-tagging agency would also be abolished. It is nothing but an apparatus of the state to violate human rights and spread fake news," added Castro.