18/08/2026
โ ๏ธ ๐ฆ๐ฃ๐ข๐๐๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐๐ฅ๐ง: ๐ง๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐ถ๐๐ป'๐ ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ผ๐๐ ๐๐ฆ ๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฒ ๐ ๐ผ๐ป๐๐ต ๐๐ง ๐๐๐!
๐ฃ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ผ, ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ป๐ผ ๐ป๐ฎ ๐ป๐ด๐ฎ ๐ฏ๐ฎ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ฆ ๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฒ ๐ ๐ผ๐ป๐๐ต ๐ป๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐ป? ๐ช๐ฎ๐น๐ฎ ๐ป๐ฎ๐ป๐ด ๐ป๐ฎ๐๐๐น๐ผ๐ ๐ป๐ฎ ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐...
The CS Freshie Month has been a staple in the flagship events of CSSC to welcome the new โSiyentista ng Bayanโ and help them prepare on their stay on the College of Science.
However, due to the continuous heavy rainfall, two of the eventsโCS Freshie Tour and Freshie Welcome Assemblyโhave already been cancelled and postponed, respectively.
For Filipinos, typhoons and the rainy season are nothing new. The habagat season lasts from May to October, and on top of this, the Philippines sits on the Pacific ring of fire and the western Pacific typhoon belt, which makes it a disaster-prone country.
Despite this, city roads continue to be swamped by floodwaters every year, public schools continue to serve as evacuation centers, class suspensions cause the education system to stagnate, and flood control and other typhoon-resilient projects remain unfinished.
After more than two weeks of persistent heavy rains, the death toll already spiked up to two digits and millions of Filipinos are still heavily affected by it.
Faced with these consequences, how did our government respond to it?
Students and parents carry the inconvenience of delayed suspension of classes from different local government units. Some wake up early and travel hours to attend face-to-face classes before LGUs announce the suspension. This is a blatant example of the government's inadequate disaster response and lack of urgency, which wastes students' time and energy and also puts their health at risk.
Due to several days of suspended classes, the education system remains stagnant. Students are now left with insufficient time to learn inside their classrooms as a result of these suspensions. Despite this, the government has done nothing but underfund the education sector, further impairing our students with inadequate study materials and subpar classrooms.
The transition to renewable energy does not only uproot the communities where the large-scale projects will be built, but is also detrimental to the environment. One example is the MTerra Solar Project that will flatten 3,500 hectares of productive farmland owned by farmers from Nueva Ecija and Bulacan. Another example is the massive tree-cutting along Quirino Avenue for the Southern Access Link Expressway (SALEx), which will undoubtedly result in significant soil erosion and quick flooding. Land-use conversion at the expense of displaced communities and the environment under the pretense of โurbanizationโ and โclean energy transitionโ will never be regarded as a โjustโ transition.
The Philippine government continues to enter into agreements with the imperialist United States through initiatives like the Pax Silica, which are clearly harmful to our environment. It is obvious that Pax Silica is yet another imperialist strategy used by the US to exhaust our natural resources and level our mountains and farmlands for their own interestsโand our government is complicit.
While the Filipinos drown in torrential rains, the government has done nothing, period.
Instead of helping us in recovering from these disasters, they continue to plunge us into poverty and despair, leaving us on our own feet, normalizing resiliency instead of accountability. Their โout-of-touchโ remarks show how less of a priority the Filipino people are to themโthey donโt care.
As you may have noticed, this post was nothing about the CS Freshie Month at all.
As Siyentista ng Bayan, we must be vigilant, not only on how these disasters move, but also with how our reactionary government respond to its effects
We have the greater responsibility of monitoring the budget for education, defending our environment, and resisting tyranny and imperialism.
