Educators condemn DepEd's plan to change the term 'Diktadurang Marcos' in curriculum

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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, September 10) – Groups of educators condemned the planned changes of the Department of Education (DepEd) in its Grade 6 Araling Panlipunan curriculum, which they said would spread disinformation and historical distortion.

"The alteration of historical terminology is not only distortion but also undermines the truth about one of the darkest periods in Philippine history," the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) said on Sunday.

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The Department of Education’s (DepEd) decision to remove former President You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now.‘s surname from the term “Diktadurang Marcos” in Grade 6 textbooks is “an insult to countless victims of human rights abuses” during the martial law period.
 
US President Abraham Lincoln once said: 'You can fool all people some of the time and some people all the time. But you can never fool all people all the time.
 

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