DepEd refutes claims about modules delivered late

The Alliance of Concerned Teachers claims that there were modules delivered late and can no longer be used by the students under the 'new normal learning.' However, the Department of Education (DepEd) disproves it.

On Thursday, ACT said that they received reports of delayed delivery of modules from Region 1 coming from the Central Office, particularly in llocos making it a wasted fund. Also, these modules contained topics which the students have already finished studying in the past weeks.

Despite its continued claim of scarcity of funds, it is the DepEd Central Office who leads in wasting money, ink and paper on module print-outs,

ACT National Spokesperson Benjamin Valbuena said.

Valbuena also claimed that these modules “can no longer serve their intended purpose as they came so many weeks late and the teachers and schools have already made ways to provide students with learning materials.”

On the same day, DepEd Undersecretary and Chief of Staff Atty. Nepomuceno Malaluan said that funds for the modules are downloaded to the regional offices, divisions, and schools. So, printing of the learning materials are being done on the local level, printing does not come from the Central Office.

He added that it is “implausible” to say that in a certain region, modules are coming in later since classes have already started in October. “What were these schools using then?” he asked.

Malaluan noted that there must have been modules that were distributed on the ground. 

Obviously, on the surface of it, that cannot be true and it is a disputable claim,

he added.