October 7th, 2008 
Von Joseph of Tondo is 10 and entering sixth grade this school year. Lately, he’s had trouble with schoolwork; his grades were 76 percent in Math and 75 percent in English. He’s also become inattentive and unable to concentrate.
Mariquita Montoya Moreno, a nutritionist at the Don Bosco Tondo Feeding Center who has observed Joseph, said his case is not unique. Many other children his age are doing just badly as he is.
The Department of Education recently reported dismal results for the 1,560,262 sixth graders from public schools who took the National Achievement Test (NAT) in the school year 2005-2006. (more…)
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