‘Sablay’ as graduation suit proposed

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 09:39:06 +0000

An official of the Department of Education is proposing the use of sablay instead of the usual toga for end-of-school-year rites in elementary and secondary schools nationwide.

DepEd Undersecretary for Administration Alain Del Pascua, in an Aide Memoire dated Feb. 18, is pushing for the use of sablay to “instill patriotism and nationalism among young learners.”

“The use of the toga, with its deep Western roots, has been taken for granted all these years despite its many disadvantages,” Pascua said.

Among the “disadvantages of using toga,” he said, is primarily because “it is not Filipino.”

“It does not inspire loyalty to the nation but selves as a reminder of a colonial past and the toga, which covers the whole body, is impractical and uncomfortable to use in a tropical country like the Philippines,” Pascua added.

Pascua also noted that the use of toga “promotes uniformity and does not
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