Acceding to a clamor for an immediate return to the old school calendar due to extreme heat, the Department of Education yesterday said it has suggested to President Marcos to end the coming school year 2024-2025 in March 2025 and start the succeeding school year by June.
MANILA, Philippines — Acceding to a clamor for an immediate return to the old school calendar due to extreme heat, the Department of Education yesterday said it has suggested to President Marcos to end the coming school year 2024-2025 in March 2025 and start the succeeding school year by June.
To ensure that students will not continue lagging in learning competencies, the education official explained that the DepEd may have to opt for alternative delivery mode classes during weekends. “We will still have April and May, but still that means the learning competencies would be cramped in a number of days, but still, we have the option to go for ADM for other days apart from weekdays,” he said.
Even lawmakers have sought to intervene by filing proposals to shift to the old calendar, stressing that the current school calendar running from August to June is inappropriate in the country. Asked by Gatchalian whether it would be unsafe for students to spend time outdoors for school activities, Dr. Vito Roque Jr. of the DOH-Epidemiology Bureau answered in the affirmative.
“Children have less experience recognizing heat stress symptoms, less awareness of their hydration status and less of an urge to drink water. Hence, they have more difficulty modifying their behavior and the environment, which makes them more vulnerable to heat related illnesses,” he added.
“In the exigency of service, actual classroom teaching in excess of the required six hours shall be compensated through the payment of teaching overload, provided that it does not exceed two hours per day,” the DO stated. “However, in case of insufficiency of funds, teaching overload hours shall be converted to earned VSC provided under the existing DepEd policy,” the agency said.
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