In an article I've read, it talks about institutionalizing the GMRC and Values Education as part of the K-12 curriculum. In order to restore this program President Rodrigo Duterte signed this law which is Republic Act 11476, or the GMRC and Values Education Act. It was said that that he signed the law on Thursday, June 25, 2020 to replace Edukasyon sa Pagpapakatao by GMRC and Values Education. From grade levels 1 to 6 GMRC will be taught as a different subject and for Kindergarten it should be applied in every activities that a students will have. For grade levels 7 to 10, Values Education will be taught as a separate subject that should also be applied to the subjects in grade levels under K-12 curriculum. GMRC is being stopped on 2013 and now it is being restored to provide a proper guidance with the students that it is being emphasized to ensure that they will be learning good manners in which they will be using in the next generation.
I agree upon the bill created by Senate Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri because I believe that good manners should always be on top and it is kind a disappointing how this generation forget how to do it. So by restoring and emphasizing GMRC and Values Education will help students to learn the proper manners and values that they should have. They will be starting to learn from the basic up until to the more elaborate principles of this field. By the time that GMRC is being stopped, values became a second priority in teaching and the way it is being teach is varied which should be avoided as possible because values will help us to think what is the right and good thing to do, who we will become in the future depends on it. Teaching it together with good manners and right conduct will help students to grow as a best version of their selves in the future.
It might be challenging for every teachers to teach this especially at this time of pandemic where all are in distance learning but they have to adjust and double their efforts in teaching this subject. This play a vital role to the students of who they will become in the future and what will happen to our next generation. Especially that in this generation most of us are in so much exposure to technology and social media. There are inappropriate manners or behaviours that can be adopted by the students if they will not have a proper guidance by the students and a supplement coming from the teachers.