The House Committee on Basic Education and Culture formed a technical working group (TWG) during its hearing to consolidate proposed measures seeking to provide protection for teachers from wrongful allegations of child abuse.
The three bills—Institutionalizing support mechanisms for public school teachers and school personnel in matters of student discipline and mechanisms for classroom management and providing for their protection in cases related thereto—were filed by Reps. Marissa Magsino of OFW Party-list, France Castro of ACT Teachers Party-list, and Edwin Olivarez of Parañaque 1st District.
Under Magsino’s proposed measure, in Section 12 — Protection to Teachers and School Personnel in Charges Related to Student Discipline and Classroom Management — the Department of Education shall extend to its teachers and other personnel “the necessary protection, including but not limited to legal assistance and representation” in all cases related to “student discipline and classroom management, including criminal and administrative charges of child abuse.
The proposed measure would also task the DepEd to create a guideline on what can be considered child abuse, so schools can define the proper actions to protect teaching and non-teaching staff. And while it is important to protect students from abuse, it is equally important to protect teachers from wrongful allegations, Castro said in her bill’s explanatory note.
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