KABATAAN Party-list Rep. Raoul Manuel wants the Commission on Higher Education to scrap its memorandum excluding Filipino, Panitikan and Constitution as required subjects in college.

In his House Resolution 26, Manuel cited CHED’s Memorandum Order 20 signed in 2013 to prevent the redundancy of the subjects in college.

He claimed  that the policy endangers the Filipino youth’s learning of the country’s rich history.

“Our youth, councils, publications, teachers, administrators, personalties and other sectors are united to promote and develop our own language by enriching Filipino and Philippine Literature subjects in schools,” Manuel said in the resolution.

He added that the gradual disintegration of the nationalist orientation of the education system misleads the students.

“This is a clear way to completely deprive the youth of the true essence of serving in one’s country and to just shrink and divert their attention to being employees who are part of the cheap and docile labor demanded by highly indutrialized countries,” Manuel said.