Tagalog versus English
It's high time Filipinos junk an intellectually-bankrupt "national language".
I do not understand what is so complicated about this whole English-versus-Tagalog “debate”. For me, it is a simple return-on-investment calculation. Compare every peso of public funds spent on Tagalog-articulated instruction and every peso of public funds spent on English-articulated instruction. Which of those two pesos spent contributes more to opening more doors of opportunity for the average Filipino?
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