It is not Sen. Sonny Angara’s impressive educational attainment, wealth of experience and other “qualifications” as the new Secretary of Education that are being put in question, but rather his being a politician (notably) and his being widely seen as “unprincipled,” besides being indifferent in critical public issues of national concern, e.g.
corruption, injustices, criminalities, Pogo, dirty politics, bloated budget, red-tagging, “fake news,” to name a few. I see Angara as a humble, quiet, amiable, handsome, good man. My opposition to his appointment is not personal in any way just as every opinion I have (good or bad) about anyone in and outside the government was and is never personal.
Senator Sonny has done a lot, but a lot for what? By the way, if I may ask: Is President Bongbong Marcos’ number one qualification in appointing a secretary of education a physical feature? He first appointed a beautiful girl in the person of Vice President Sara Duterte. Now it’s a boy, an equally good-looking man. If that’s the case, then I am vouching for Alden Richards or Piolo Pascual or Catriona Gray.
Shoo-in! We need an education secretary (and officials) who can stand for the truth and stand up to anything and everything bad, i.e., China in its intrusions, bullying and belligerence in the West Philippine Sea.
He must be one who can be himself as a righteously principled educator, engaged and fervent amidst controversies involving good and evil in government and so.