Students use umbrellas to protect themselves from the sun as they line up to wait for their classes outside their school in Manila on April 2, 2024. More than a hundred schools in the Philippine capital shut their classrooms on April 2, as the tropical heat hit"danger" levels, education officials said.
Education sector unions, groups and other stakeholders have been calling on the DepEd to abandon its current phased transition toward the old school calendar but the agency remains firm in its decision to slowly revert. Earlier, various groups called for the return to the old school calendar, citing the heat experienced by students during March and April.
Learners from District 2 are advised to go to school at 8 a.m. to 12 noon today for the distribution of allowances, he noted.Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri has appealed to Marcos to revert the summer school break to April and May. “But we see here in summer, week after week, there will be a suspension of classes due to extreme heat. So I would suggest we just go back to our summer break of March, April and May. And then let’s remove the vacation break from June to August because we can see that it is a severe torture for our students,” he added.
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