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(From Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Byline: Dona Z. Pazzibugan
TWENTY high school students yesterday vowed to return to the Department of Education with a million signatures protesting the implementation of the controversial "bridge program" in June.
Bearing placards and chanting slogans, 20 members of the League of Filipino Students-High School made good on their promise to stage protest rallies at the DepEd main office in Pasig City.
They denounced as "undemocratic" and "pro-capitalist" the DepEd's plan to compel about 700,000 incoming public high school freshmen to go through a one-year "bridge program" before entering regular high school.
The number represents half of the 1.4 million incoming high school freshmen who would not make the cut based on the 50-percentile cutoff in the High School Readiness Test given on May 24.
"Students and parents should not be punished for the government's neglect in raising the quality of public ...