THE enactment of Republic Act (RA) 11476, or the “GMRC and Values Education Act,” is one of the good things that happened while most of the country was on lockdown. The new law revives the subject Good Manners and Right Conduct (GMRC) in the basic education curriculum.

Bringing back GMRC, in lieu of Edukasyon sa Pagpapakatao that teaches ethics to students in the current curriculum, serves as an admission that removing it as a separate subject 18 years ago was a mistake.

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