Ang Mga Guro ng Malining

1.What are the challenges that Teachers Claudine, Grace and Jericho face every month just to get to
Malining Elementary School? Enumerate and explain.

Malining Elementary School is a two day journey from Tanay, Rizal and it is a remote area. This journey
entails passing through the Sierra Madre mountain range filled with tropical rainforests. They must
endure long hours of walks, heavy rains and crossing rivers with strong currents, walking through floods
and a lot of muds. Their teaching location has no signal for cellphones nor lectricity, they have absolutely
no means of communicating with their families or loved ones. Money is also an issue, since most half of
their salary automatically goes to the people they hired to carry everything they will be needing in the
two days journey to the remote area of 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 being quite far away from their
homes, which was not what they were expecting when they first applied to teach.

2.Based on what you have watched in the documentary, why do you think the Teachers of Malining
go the extra mile to teach the children in the school?

Personally, I thin these teachers go the extra mile because they know that their students are really look
up to them. In the documentary, it was shown that the kids waits for them outside the classroom, while
most of the kids are quietly sitting in the class and wait for their teachers to come. This shows that the
children are really looking forward to the teacher’s visits every month, and this really inspires them to go
through everything they had in the documentary in order for these kids to received proper education. In
addition to that, I believed that the teachers assigned in this school they see is as their responsibility to
teach and look after these kids, since no one else would climb mountains for two days every month just
to do so. These teachers are some of the unsung heroes of this country, and I wish that they could be
given more credit than just one documentary. They are definitely deserve more recognition for what
they do.

3.What sacrifices do the Teachers have to make to pursue their vocation of teaching?Several have
been mentioned in the film. Enumerate and explain.

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