25/04/2024
AN OPEN LETTER TO FILIPINOS
Dear Kababayan Reader,
I am writing to express my concern about the situation of our country particularly the education department.
In case you don’t know, the leadership of the department was given to Vice President Sara Duterte Carpio reportedly on the premise that she will do good as its secretary because she is a mother of young children who are themselves learning in schools. But we know it’s more than that.
Now that there is a growing demand for VP Sara to resign as the Secretary of Eduaction Department because of her admission of lack of experience, the deteriorating situation in the learning system and her awkward position as a silent member of the family who publicly criticized and called for support to end the Marcos presidency, among others, another political move is in the air. The Filipino learners must not be held hostage by our leaders’ political accommodation practices. The education department should be run by a qualified person from the field, has a sincere desire to serve and, most importantly, someone who is not a politician.
In this regard, I would like to present myself as one of the choices for the education secretary when it becomes open under any unforeseen circumstances.
Thanks to the Study Now Pay Later Program and a college Parent-Teacher Association Scholarship, I graduated as Magna Cum Laude when I took my bachelor degree in Education, have a Masters degree in both Education and Law, have more than twenty years of combined teaching experience in public and private schools in the Philippines and in Japan, trained public school teachers in Mathematics in the National Capital Region (NCR) for several years, was recognized as an Outstanding Public School Teacher by different award bodies in NCR, founded a private school in San Mateo Rizal despite minimal budget, was a grantee of a Teacher Training Scholarship Program by the Ministry of Education (Monbusho) in Japan and now married with a retired Japanese businessman in his late seventies. I am turning 58 on June 12.
I can not have this qualification and peacefully watch your situation without offering my service because born in a family of a poor coconut farmer at the center island of the Philippines, Marinduque, it is only God who can make all the above enumerated achievements possible. I need to give the favor back to you. If my faith in God is a turn off, know that I don’t have any business nor political connections in the country. With these two, you have an excuse to disqualify me. But for the same reasons, please consider the possibility that I am your best chance.
Should you decide to hire me, you can ask the government to freeze all my assets while in service. I can not ask someone to do something I myself am not capable of doing.
I am a permanent resident here in Japan but will gladly go home to serve if appointed by the people and the President.
I hope that this letter will pave the way to a bright future of our country, the Philippines. Please do what you can to bring our country to its prophetic destiny as a great nation favored by God.
Sincerely yours,
Marisa Malapad
(formerly known in NCR as Marisa Ancheta)
