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MANILA, Philippines – Due to a “clamor” for a faster return to the old academic calendar, the Department of Education said on Tuesday, April 30, that it has sent a letter to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. offering a more “aggressive” ending of the upcoming school year 2024 to 2025 in March 2025. “In the meantime, we respectfully appeal to the committee to allow the President time to study the options carefully,” he added.
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, chairman of the Senate basic education committee, said that he prefers the “aggressive” approach. “We need to revert to the old calendar. Weather is unpredictable,” he said.said the government would find a way to have “transition completed earlier to put the schedule of our schoolchildren back to normal at the soonest time.”Bringas said that students will have shorter school days.