In fact, all these problems will only drag on for another two years. As Felipe, University of the Philippines professor and former vice minister of Education, and Porio, executive director of the Fund for Assistance to Private Education (FAPE) argue, “Many educators seem to expect too much from the 12-year education cycle. More likely, lengthening the cycle is such a concrete step that it gives them the feeling that they are doing something to fix a broken system” (Calderon 2014). Even now, with the ten-year curriculum, there is a desperate lack of classrooms and schools. Research by Cyril John Barlongo of the Business Mirror, a business newspaper in the Philippines, shows that “30,000 new classrooms are needed for the new curriculum.” The reality of public education in the Philippines is a nightmare for the working class and oppressed masses. As stated by Ronald Meinardus (2003) in The Crisis of Public Education in the Philippines, “With 95 percent of all elementary students attending public schools, the educational crisis in the Philippines is fundamentally a crisis of public education” ( Calderon 2014 ) Public schools cannot turn students away when they show up to enroll, to cope many public schools have crammed as many students as possible into classrooms with rooms filled with chairs from wall to wall. Taken from the article Dilapidated, overcrowded