Mandatory Reserve Officers Training Corps in Senior High School Department at Bestlink College of the Philippines

Vol.3, No.1C

Abstract

ROTC is one of three components of the National Service Training Program in the Philippines, which includes civic education and defence training for Filipino college students. ROTC is a program that tries to prepare students for careers in the military. This is supposed to teach everyone the value and broad meaning of discipline. President Rodrigo Duterte stated that the program must prepare future Filipino youngsters to protect the country. On the other hand, the younger generation has to be exposed to the fundamentals of basic soldiery to assist in developing and home their leadership potential. However, the Gabriela Women's Party criticized the bill's approval as short of substantive talks on the legislation. Before the NSTP Law, Before the passage of the NSTP Law in 2001, ROTC was taking over campuses and had no civilian welfare or literacy component. The study focused on the perspectives of Senior High School students who would be most affected by the proposed return of the mandatory ROTC program in the classroom.