Lea Salonga apologizes for comment about DepEd ‘tattoo’ module

Broadway star Lea Salonga apologized for the remarks she made concering the Department of Education (DepEd) module that describes what a tattoo is in one of its exercises. The module described a tattoo as a sign of being a criminal – Lea reacted to this.

“Okay, someone would need to tell me if this thing is really ok’d by the DepEd. And if so, WHAT KIND OF BS IS THIS???” said Lea in an earlier post.

It turns out Lea was given only a portion of the DepEd module. DepEd made a correction on the said module and indicated that the correct answer should be that tattoos were a symbol of beauty and courage.

On her Facebook account, Lea posted the following statement:

“Okay, so there’s more on this DepEd tattoo story.

Thanks to a direct message (you have my sincerest thanks… you know who you are) sent to me, turns out that the context of that page was such: the discussion was on Philippine History and on the significance of tattoos in our culture. The correct answer was C, that tattoos were a symbol of beauty and courage. Not A, that tats are a sign of being a criminal.

So, in my amateur opinion, someone out there wants to make someone else look incompetent. Covering up a big part of the page and making it look like the answer key was marking the wrong letter as correct. For my part in this, allow me to apologize. I just want for our kids to get as good an education as they can get.

As for the saboteur, there’s a special place in hell for the likes of you.”

(Photo source: Instagram – @msleasalonga)