Diminishing English language skills are already a huge problem. Once one of the biggest selling points for Filipinos seeking work abroad, English language skills have decreased at an alarming rate. I have been here 14 years, and the number of Filipinos who can really communicate in English has dropped annually. My two older boys are both graduates of De La Salle University, an English-language private school. While they both speak good English (by virtue of having lived with me for most of their lives), the number of their classmates who can actually hold a conversation in English is depressing. Unless they work in parts of the service industry like hotels, travel agencies, airlines or the like, or in call centers, there is little opportunity for them to use the English which they learned in school. Montessori, where my twins go to school, used to be English only; just this year, they have shifted many of their classes to Tagalog, as parents were complaining that their kids couldn't keep up. And the downward spiral continues. I am now searching for a new school for the twins, with little success thus far.