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THERE was one scene in the recently concluded television soap opera Momay that belittled children studying in public schools: Character actress Glydel Mercado, playing the role of a mother, told her nephew, “O ikaw Jay-jay, sa public school ka nalang mag-aral kasi bobo ka naman (You, Jay-jay, will go to public school because you’re dumb).”

By KIM ARVEEN M. PATRIA MUSIC broke the silence of a humid Monday afternoon in a small neighborhood in San Pablo City.  Inside a school gymnasium along a poorly paved road, a rondalla, an ensemble of string instruments, rehearsed melodic pieces for everyone to hear—everyone except those playing them. Those who held the guitars, the