Disguise of Red

hand, depression is a mental illness and can affect your daily regimen or might as well, severely eat into your ticking time of life if left untreated. They are not a synonym of the other nor can they be considered as two sides of a coin however a lot of people, most especially the present youth, seem to have misunderstood sadness from the latter. ‘Sad’ is an easy word, so why use a complex term such as a clinical condition to describe a fleeting emotion?

“First, they get sad, of course. Next is they search it up on the web and then viola, self-diagnosing takes place.” Jerica said. According advice from a professional who refuted their self-diagnosis.

Depression is a general term and the mother of all the other mental related illnesses. Depression, Bipolar Disorder and being a psychopath is definitely the holy trinity of most common self-diagnosed mental conditions according to American Journal of Medicine, which are actually pretty serious but are now being vastly romanticized.

There is a visible border from one’s emotion from a mental condition, and it takes a bubble to burst for people to understand that depression as an aesthetic will never work, better negative trait toward anything. And there is no exception in politics. Red flags of a politician include abuse of authority, deaf to issues, uneducated, liar, violator of human rights, corrupt, sexist, ex-convict, and criminal. Ironically, they have been hailed in the position to observe the nation.

“Ok ra, dli man iyang gi eskwelahan ang importanti kung wala siya naghuman, ug bakak lang ang iyang giingon. Ang naa siyay kabalan sa politiko, naa siyay experience ug naa siyay pagdumala sa Pilipinas ang importanti” (It’s all right, even if he didn’t go to school, didn’t complete, and lied about it. The most important thing is that he has experience and has governance in the Philippines) uttered by a 40-year-old voter, named Inday. A woman who leaned her trust and voted for her presidential bet, shared her thoughts on how she blindly ignored the red flag.

The Philippines has masses of problems lined up. Poverty is one of the biggest problems in the Philippines. Slow to moderate economic growth and failure to grow the agriculture sector are some of the reasons why this problem remains a challenge.

During the 2015 Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES), the poverty rate among Filipinos was 21.6 percent. On the other hand, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) estimated the population’s poverty rate increased to 23.7 percent in the first half of 2021, up from 21.1 percent in the same period in 2018. This translates to an additional 3.9 million Filipinos living in poverty.

This has been the proof of ignoring the red flag politicians could lead. Which evokes that the Philippines has not been out of the swamp, and is still a third-world country.

A senior high schooler, Mae, who strives for good governance said, “ In the first place, good educational background and a clean slate of criminal records is a big requirement for one to be trusted as a leader. Many of his voters have spoken about him not getting that degree but still, they just turned a blind eye to that.” Mae added,

“This isn’t subjective, but rather objective enough to say those politicians and their red flags and lies couldn’t make the country any less good.” understandable, not acceptable

Mae has been aware of their disguise and unleashed her remarks.

If the positions of subterfuge protectors scream to snippet holes to their own country, in able to obtain their aim. Hence, a vivid future of the Philippines is out of contact.

Despite their best efforts to conceal their red flags, there will always be an eagle-eyed citizen who will spot them. The monochrome appearance that people thought was intended to point to yell more assurance, to escort their safety, is a disguise. Behind it is a color red that can point the nation to oblivion.

by Joshua Louis Solon

There have always been kids that have chosen to cheat in school. Today’s tech gadgets have made it easier and more common than before. Kids programmed answer sheets into their phones and posted them online, some of them shared their answers to the Facebook page they made.

This pandemic has been tough for all the students who experience very difficult days. A lot of students choose to cheat because they thought it would help them achieve higher grades. Because of these situations some students tend to be lazy and depend on others. Plenty of students go through some bad days and are mentally unstable this past school year until now.

Social media for school has been famous this time like Brainly, Photomath, Quillbot, Grammarly including Facebook. Facebook must be only used to post your status and to connect with friends but this time it is also used to cheat. Students made a Facebook page named ‘Online

Kopyahan’ to share answers, the members of the said group page were students around elementary to college. This group has been reported and shown on national television. But it did not stop the students from making more pages for cheating.

Slow-learners must be guided by. Self-learning modules were monitored by DepEd to be used to learn the lessons. Modules must be the number one source for the students to answer. Going to school must be dangerous nowadays because of the deadly virus that may affect students’ health and may die. Students and parents want to go back to normal or implement face-to-face classes to be more guided.

90% percent of people agreed to be vaccinated in the survey, this helps to lessen the virus and there’s a possibility to implement face-to-face classes. We must learn to face our responsibilities as students and practice to be more independent and find solutions and ways to provide answers to our own questionnaires. This may be understandable in some ways because of the pandemic but it’s not always considerable to cheat. Cheating can cause many damages and it includes us fooling our own selves in gaining achievements we did not work hard for.