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    1) Teachers at Malining Elementary School must walk two days through mountains and forests to reach the school, enduring heavy rain, strong rivers, floods and mud. The remote school has no cell service or electricity. 2) The teachers continue teaching despite great hardship because the students look up to them and would have no education otherwise. 3) The teachers are away from their families for long periods with no way to communicate, and spend much of their salaries transporting supplies through the difficult terrain, showing their dedication to teaching.

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    1) Teachers at Malining Elementary School must walk two days through mountains and forests to reach the school, enduring heavy rain, strong rivers, floods and mud. The remote school has no cell service or electricity. 2) The teachers continue teaching despite great hardship because the students look up to them and would have no education otherwise. 3) The teachers are away from their families for long periods with no way to communicate, and spend much of their salaries transporting supplies through the difficult terrain, showing their dedication to teaching.

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    1) Teachers at Malining Elementary School must walk two days through mountains and forests to reach the school, enduring heavy rain, strong rivers, floods and mud. The remote school has no cell service or electricity. 2) The teachers continue teaching despite great hardship because the students look up to them and would have no education otherwise. 3) The teachers are away from their families for long periods with no way to communicate, and spend much of their salaries transporting supplies through the difficult terrain, showing their dedication to teaching.

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    1) Teachers at Malining Elementary School must walk two days through mountains and forests to reach the school, enduring heavy rain, strong rivers, floods and mud. The remote school has no cell service or electricity. 2) The teachers continue teaching despite great hardship because the students look up to them and would have no education otherwise. 3) The teachers are away from their families for long periods with no way to communicate, and spend much of their salaries transporting supplies through the difficult terrain, showing their dedication to teaching.

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    iWitness’ Ang Mga Guro ng Malining: Reaction Paper

    by Elaine Bueno

    Malining Elementary School is a two-day walk from Tanay, Rizal. This walk
    entails passing through the Sierra Madre, which is a mountain range filled with tropical
    rainforests, so they must endure heavy rains and crossing rivers with strong currents, as
    well as walking through floods and a lot of mud. Secondly, their teaching location has no
    signal or electricity, so they have absolutely no means of communicating with their
    families or other loved ones. Money is also an issue, since almost half of their salary
    automatically goes to the people they hire to carry everything they will be needing when
    they make the journey to the elementary school. On top of all of this, they are required
    to do this every month, as they were assigned to this public school despite it being quite
    far away from their homes, which was not what they were expecting when they first
    applied to teach.

    These teachers go the extra mile because they know that their students really
    look up to them. In the documentary, it was shown that the kids wait for them outside
    the classroom doors, while most kids just opt to sit down in class and wait for their
    teachers. This shows that the children really look forward to the teachers' visits every
    month, and this really inspires them to go through everything they had to in the
    documentary in order for these kids to receive a proper education. In addition to that, I
    believe that they see it as their responsibility to teach and look after these kids, since no
    one else would climb a mountain for two days every month just to do so.

    First and most important of all, these teachers chose to be away from their
    families in order to pursue their vocation of teaching. Not only are they away from their
    families, but they also have absolutely no means of communicating with them while they
    are away. It was shown in the documentary that one of the female teachers was writing
    a letter to her daughters, and her daughter could never even read it since there was no
    post office as well.

    In addition to that, their monetary expenses are sacrificed as well, since they
    have to spend for supplies they need while they are up in the mountains, as well as
    payment for the people who will be carrying their things throughout the journey. Their
    job requires a lot of sacrifice from them, and it really shows their nobility and
    determination in what they do.

    After watching the documentary film, I realized that these people are some of
    the unsung heroes of this country, and I wish that they could be given more credit than
    just one documentary, since they definitely deserve more recognition for what they do.

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