MANILA, Philippines — The three-member Makabayan bloc on Monday filed a bill that would revert the 2024 to 2025 school calendar to the prepandemic schedule of June to March, with students going on break in Ap... CDNDigital
break in April and May, following mounting complaints from teachers and students about the difficulty of holding classes during summer.
This would reduce by a few days the 180-day “nonnegotiable contact time” set by the Department of Education and “give teachers at least a week of rest in between the two school years,” the lawmakers said.Public school teachers welcomed the filing of the bill by their party list counterpart with ACT chair Vladimer Quetua calling it “a big deal for us teachers because we don’t want to repeat the intense heat we endured this school year.
In a statement, Castro said the current August to May school calendar had proven to be “detrimental” and “resulted in decreased productivity, poor student performance, and even health problems.”She noted that it had also affected the agricultural sector as students who used to help their families with farm work during planting season were now unable to do so.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, DepEd moved the opening of the school year 2020-2021 from June to August through a department order issued on May 11, 2020.
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