INTRODUCTION - WORKING STUDENTS

Poverty rules the world. It is seen and felt everywhere.
Here in the Philippines, most Filipinos believe that to curve poverty, they have to educate their children to spare them from becoming poor. Maybe this is what prod parents, sisters and brothers to go abroad, try their luck outside the country to earn enough to be able to give their loved ones the best education they can have. Lucky are the children who have OFW relatives who take care of their financial needs.

But they belong to the very few. Not all are as lucky as them. The majority where the less fortunates belong, have to break limbs and bones to send themselves to school especially when their parents do no have the capacity to spend for their education. These would-be-dreamers do not just stand in one corner waiting for a good philantrophist or a good samaritan to come their way, pick them up and presto, to college they go. Instead, they themselves go out their way to find a job, make self-sacrifices in order to make their dreams come true.

Compared with regular students whose only responsibility is to concentrate on their studies, how do these working student fare in school? Do they strive to excel more than anybody else or is their goal is just to finish a course and grab this piece of parchment paper called "diploma"?

These questions and many more are the basic factors why this research paper came