'ANTI-POOR.' ACT Teachers Representative France Castro dares Education Secretary Leonor Briones to demonstrate distance learning in poor areas. File photo by Darren Langit/Rappler
MANILA, Philippines – Assistant Minority Leader and ACT Teachers Representative France Castro on Wednesday, June 24, challenged Department of Education Secretary Leonor Briones to demonstrate"We challenge Secretary Briones to demonstrate the different learning modalities in less fortunate areas herself so that the education department will see how their policies would be implemented on the ground and see the consequences on quality and accessibility of education," Castro said.
According to Castro,"forcing" schools to open classes in August without the adequate equipment needed for distance learning will"ultimately sacrifice accessibility and quality education." "DepEd policies for their back-to-school program [are] anti-poor. The education department assumes that all students are capable of teaching themselves at home using printed, soft copies, or online versions of their modules. It assumes that all students have parents that can help them learn their lessons," Castro added.
With its insistence to push through with the opening of classes, Castro said that the DepEd should ensure that"quality and accessibility of education will not be sacrificed" and"no child shall be left behind.
Dapat kay Briones magresign na.
this 'challenge your government officials' should be normalized. Cos they just keeping on implementing plans without realizing their impact on the general public and how we suffer real-time.
Sec Briones should accept the challenge
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