Teachers don’t have to be in school on June 1 - DepED The Department of Education (DepEd) on Friday, May 22, clarified that no teachers ar...
Teachers don’t have to be in school on June 1 - DepED
The Department of Education (DepEd) on Friday, May 22, clarified that no teachers are being forced or required to report physically on June 1, 2020.
DepED Secretary Leonor M. Briones in an interview said that teachers may return to work starting June 1 either “virtually” or “physically.”
“We have already said, even during our virtual press conference that they can report online or physically yet we are receiving complaints like they are being forced, they are risking their lives,” said Briones.
“We have already said, even during our virtual press conference that they can report online or physically yet we are receiving complaints like they are being forced, they are risking their lives,” said Briones.
“We never said that physically, never every single one of the 900,000 teachers will be reporting physically. We’ve been repeating that over and over, but it just keeps coming back, still the same reactions,” the secretary added.
The secretary said they already issued a memorandum that teachers are not physically required to go to school on June 1.
READ: Assigned task of Teachers starting June 1
The secretary said they already issued a memorandum that teachers are not physically required to go to school on June 1.
READ: Assigned task of Teachers starting June 1
In the memo, public school teaching and non-teaching personnel will report either online or physically starting June 1, 2020 to undergo capacity building as preparation for new lessons and probably the new style of learning.
“No covid-19 vaccines, no classes”
Deputy House Speaker and Pampanga 3rd district Representative Aurelio Gonzales proposes the deferment of the opening of School Year 2020-2021 of both public and private schools until a vaccine against COVID-19 is available in the country.
Rep. Gonzales, on May 21, Thursday said that Resolution No. 876 calling on the postponement of classes “until and unless a vaccine against Covid-19 has been discovered and included in the Philippine national drug formulary” was referred to Covid-19 Committee co-chaired by Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano and Majority Leader Martin Romualdez.
The Resolution No. 876, Gonzales said, seeks to express the collective sense of the House of Representatives for the Department of Education (DepEd), Commission on Higher Education (CHED), Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), and Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) to suspend the resumption of classes “until and unless a vaccine against Covid-19 has been discovered and included in the Philippine national drug formulary.”
