'I HAVE heard this already, not once but many times before.' I told myself this while listening to the 2023 Department of Education (DepEd) Report by the secretary of the DepEd herself, who is also the honorable vice president (VP) of the Republic of the Philippines, her excellency, Sara Zimmerman Duterte-Carpio. The rationale of her report is a response to 'the momentum brought about by the UN Transforming Education Summit in September 2022.'

I do not see the need to go into the details of the national report of the previous heads of the DepEd to express my opinion because VP Sara Duterte's report sounded like the previous reports made by her predecessors, but she gave it a different slant and several new ideas and recommendations.