CITY OF SAN FERNANDO An "honesty cart" has been set up in Remedios National High School in Lubao town by two teachers.
The project is aimed to strengthen the values of honesty and punctuality among the students of the public learning institution.
The two educators---Jazmine Rose Abellana and Roselle Aguilar---said the "Honesty Cart," stands for "Honing One’s Sense of Truthfulness Through Buying and Selling in a Cart".
This is in line with the Department of Education's (DepEd) "Project Watch" program designed to restore and strengthen values formation among the youth.
It was patterned after the Honesty Café in the province of Batanes, and following the honesty store called “Tindahan ni Honest Juan" in San Ricardo National High School, a public high school in Talavera town, Nueva Ecija province.
The "Honesty Cart" is similarly left unattended and student-buyers are expected to voluntarily leave their payment for the items they are getting.
“The advocacy of our project is to teach students the virtue of honesty,” the teachers said during the DepEd's news program on Tuesday, wherein school principal Jeanie Lintag added parents are supportive and happy about the project