WE heard last week of the campaign of a teachers' party-list to push for Tagalog-based Filipino as the only medium of instruction in Philippine schools. This proposal is laughable, at best, and at worst, downright annoying, coming as it does from a political party that supposedly represents our teachers. This debate has been over since the 1970s, and the results are clear as day.

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