Last Wednesday, Kabataan Partylist, held a joint press conference with Gabriela Women’s Party with regard to the allegations of corruption against the Department of Education in its millions of pesos worth of purchases, not only of error-filled books, but also of shampoo, dental needs, and otoscopes for public school children.

Gabriela, who had previously filed a resolution in the House of Representatives about the Department’s purchase of millions of pesos worth of error-filled textbooks, reiterated its call to investigate the scandalous project. Read the list of errors and I guarantee you, it’s like reading jokes from Engrish.com. On its face, it’s hilarious, but if you think about how it’s being taught to millions of Filipino public school children, it’s scary. No wonder our children our faring poorly in standardized exams.

As if the millions of pesos government officials in the Department of Education allegedly pocketed with the error-filled textbooks weren’t enough, here comes overpriced shampoo, overpriced dental supplies and overpriced otoscopes. Hindi talaga pinalampas para pagkakitaan pati buhok, ngipin at tenga ng mga batang estudyante. Bid prices of the medical supplies were found to be more than double the prevailing market prices of the same items. Even if the Department claims they are of excellent quality, shouldn’t the price per unit be even cheaper because they are being purchased in bulk?

Here is the TV Patrol story on the scam, as exposed by Kabataan Partylist:

Here is the story of Bulatlat with regard to the scam.