Lady solon lauds CHED for clarifying policies on educational tours and field trips

By Office of Hon. Janette L. Garin
July 30, 2012

QUEZON CITY  –  Believing that costly field trips and educational tours are unnecessary and it has become an entrepreneurial undertaking for some professors, Rep. Janette LoretaGarin of the 1st District of Iloilo lauds the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) chaired by Patricia B. Licuanan for issuing Memorandum Order No. 17 which clarifies the policies and guidelines on educational tours and field trips of college and graduate students.

Rep. Garin’s heartfelt sentiment on the issue is influenced by the countless personal accounts from long distressed constituents requesting for financial aid in order to fulfill this school requirement. These educational tours and field trips should promote learning but most often than not, based on the comments from parents and students, are just recreational activities that offer very little or at times absolutely no valuable learning at all, explained Rep. Garin.

According to Rep. Garin, the issuance of this much needed memorandum is such a welcome move towards PNoy’s Matuwid na Daan. Rep. Garin said, “finally, CHED has issued something concrete to help alleviate the suffering of students and parents unnecessarily burdened with exorbitant field trip fees,” she said.

Rep. Garin stressed that the expenses incurred for such activities are an encumbrance that should never have been placed on the already heavily burdened students and their financially challenged parents. “These parents are already facing hardships just to send their children to school, these additional unnecessary expenses should be lifted off their shoulders,” she added.