Breaking the Cycle of Mediocrity and Despair.
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Candice Ann C. Santos Breaking the Cycle of Mediocrity and Despair What is this cycle of mediocrity and despair? It is simply that those who aspire and become teachers come from the ranks of the poor and the inadequately trained. They are poorly schooled, without adequate background and means to enter the higher paying professions. They finish their basic education without adequate facilities, books, school supplies, most pathetically, they come under the care of teachers with elementary competencies in reading, writing, computing, and even speaking. Some high school teachers are assigned to teach physics, chemistry, algebra when they are not even well equipped to teach lower grade math and science classes. And so the poorly trained poor high school graduates to poor teacher-training institutions to be able to teach the poor. And the cycle continues on and on. Of course, the students of the elite, exclusive schools are a thousand times...

