Students use a cardboard box to protect themselves from the sun during a hot day in Manila yesterday. More than a hundred schools nationwide have shut their classrooms and resorted to alternative learning modes due to sweltering temperatures, which have hit danger levels.
DepEd spokesman and Undersecretary Michael Poa had earlier told reporters that the agency eyes full return to the old academic calendar by SY 2026-2027, where classes would open in June. Nonetheless, Basas said if shortening the vacation of teachers to prepare for a possible earlier date of opening of classes cannot be avoided, the DepEd must provide them necessary compensation such as additional service credits convertible to vacation leave or extra pay.
Bicol, Central Visayas, Eastern Visayas and Soccsksargen have a combined total of 961 schools suspending onsite classes. The number of affected students has yet to be determined. In a memorandum issued by Schools Division Superintendent Alejandro Ibañez, several dress code adjustments were adopted, such as allowing students to wear PE uniforms, jogging pants and white shirts as well as authorizing teachers to wear polo shirts to combat extremely high temperatures.The maximum heat index in Dagupan City reached 45 degrees Celsius, according to the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration .
Meanwhile, Metro Manila and the rest of the country may see isolated rainshowers due to the easterlies and some localized thunderstorms.The ongoing El Niño has affected some 500,000 people so far, as almost 20 provinces in the country have expressed intention to declare a state of calamity, El Niño Task Force spokesman Assistant Secretary Joey Villarama said yesterday.
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