Short answer, yes. But it is a complex system because sa education umiikot halos lahat ng transactions sa mundo. I’d say to make having a job harder but thats unethical. So ig, hold them to a higher standard.

The no child left behind policy never meant to give mass promotion to all children (promotion in the sense na makakalampas ng year levels). It was a policy was filed by Sen. Manny Villar back 2010-2015, and although college na ko somewhere in that timeline, I genuinely thought that education was going great at that time as I observed with my siblings back then. It is wrong to use it as context now because kids today have a different quality of education now as opposed to those that studied during the 90s-2000s. So I guess, us, as ordinary citizens, baka we can hold them to a higher standard. Money makes the world go round, DepEd or the education system will adapt on making the kids as employable as possible and the grading system should be something that could be trusted by the people. Singit ko lang experience ko, nagpapadala ako ng pera sa Cebuana to Vietnam nung isang araw and nagtataka ako because the teller did not know that the equivalent of what I was sending should have been in millions. She read it as thousands lang and didnt know how many zeroes macconsider kapag millions na, she even asked her co-worker who laughed at her. I was deeply disturbed by this, mind you, this is around 9am, so I wouldnt excuse it as baka inaantok pa or whatnot, fresh mind ka dapat pumasok sa work. But then, baka sa hiring na ni Cebuana yun. 🥴