We didn't give up.
We just know and understand the limits of our students.
And as good teachers, we have to make sure that they understand what we teach and they acquired knowledge from us.
It is not about flaunting your English vocabulary in front of other people, it is more on how you can teach effectively, and effective teaching means that your students learned something from you.
Yes, it is important to know the language for us to be able to be "globally competitive",(like what our school aims us to be) but we also bear in mind the idea that students are diverse, some of them, or most of them really can't grasp an idea if it is purely explained in English. We can't just force them to understand English and absorb the Science concepts that we are teaching all at the same time. We are not superheroes, we are not gods, we can't even do magic tricks! Stop asking us if we have already tried teaching in pure English, because we already did, and it is not that effective. I dare you to teach high school students, and let us see if you can teach them the concepts of biology in pure English and be able to evaluate, and assess their learning effectively. If all of them passed an exam without you explaining to them the concepts in Filipino, then kuddos to you! Exerting force into making someone do something is not an effective strategy in teaching.
If you want to bombard us with your criticisms, find a better avenue. Don't grab the opportunity to make us look like we are imbeciles in front of other people while you are holding the microphone and we can't talk back and defend ourselves.
One more thing. Respect is a big word, and we know how to give respect to people who earn it. (Checking our cell phones or taking pictures does not show disrespect! but those people who are supposed to be in charge but are not doing their responsibility, instead doing other stuffs unrelated to the event and disturbing the event itself, those are the people who are disrespectful!)
If you always have to teach in englsh, then why does the K-12 program implement teaching in the mother tongue for several grade levels?! If the education department really wants us to be english speakers then the government should've just make english our mother tongue.
