On Thursday, Feb. 18, the Department of Education (DepEd) has again brought up their plan to resume face-to-face classes even though there are still lack of classrooms, sanitary facilities and health services in public schools.
According to a study conducted by DepEd, Education Secretary Leonor Briones suggests that schools should be reopened in the country because learners wanted to go back to school and learn with their friends as they were in lock down at home for almost a year.
The most avid supporters of face-to-face [classes] are the learners themselves,
Briones said at the regularly televised government briefing program.
We asked children, parents and teachers, and we saw that out of all the children who participated, more than 50 percent said they wanted face-to-face classes because they will benefit from it,
Briones said without releasing the study itself or even expounding on its key details.
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A significant portion of parents were still unsure on the matter. Meanwhile, teachers agreed with the resumption of face-to-face classes.
Briones said that she would present to President Duterte four policy changes in their original reopening proposal, however the National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP) slammed the DepEd for pursuing experiments.
The DepEd is experimenting on the students. They keep on making proposals just to experiment on students’ experiences all for the sake of distance learning,
said Jandeil Roperos, NUSP national president who made the remark following the new DepEd proposal which shortens the two-month summer break of students into just two weeks.
Instead of wasting their time on implementing a shorter summer vacation for students, the DepEd should focus on making comprehensive plans to address the gaps in distance learning and prepare the requirements for the safe resumption of classes,
Roperos added.
Extending the school year is also a grave labor injustice to our already stressed and burned out teachers who will be working for 13 straight months without even the benefit of vacation or sick leave, compared to their prepandemic schedule of 10 working months before two summer vacation months,
said Raymond Basilio, secretary general of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers.
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DepEd suggests to resume face-to-face classes
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