Ensuring less class hours, weekends as rest days for teachers

Less class hours, ensuring weekends as rest days for teachers bills filed In the past days, proposals of a no-homework policy have sparked...

Less class hours, ensuring weekends as rest days for teachers bills filed

In the past days, proposals of a no-homework policy have sparked conversations on teachers’welfare amid the heavy workload they have under the prevailing education system.

Aside from teachers' long clamor for a decent salary hike, several in the House of Representatives alone have been filed and re-filed in the 18th Congress to support public and private teachers in the country.

One of these bills is House Bill 3657 entitled An Act Ensuring Weekends as Days of Rest for Public and Private School Teachers by Providing for their Right to Conduct Meetings, Conferences, Trainings, and Sim,ilar Activities During Weekdays, Amending for the Purpose Republict Act 4461.

HB 3657 ensures that weekends be rest days for public and private teachers by banning meetings, conferences, training, and similar activities on Saturdays and Sundays.

Another House Bill is the HB 3815 that limits the class hours of public school teachers to six hours per day. READ HB3815.

READ HOUSE BILL 36757 - An Act Ensuring Weekends as Days of Rest for Public and Private School Teachers by Providing for their Right to Conduct Meetings, Conferences, Trainings, and Sim,ilar Activities During Weekdays, Amending for the Purpose Republict Act 4461.