DepEd vows to ensure protection, safety of students with mandatory ROTC revival

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As it welcomes the revival of the mandatory Reserve Officers Training Course (ROTC) to Senior High School (SHS) students, the Department of Education (DepEd) on Thursday vowed to prioritize initiatives that will help ensure the protection and safety of learners.

In a statement, DepEd welcomed ROTC’s revival as its proposed implementation in Grades 11 and 12 passed the third and final reading at the House of Representatives.

DepEd said these laws and policies include the Learners and Schools as Zones of Peace to ensure that there will be “no introduction of firearms” in school premises; the Child Protection Policy; the Management of Children-at-Risk and Children in Conflict with the Law; the Special Protection of Children against Abuse, Exploitation, and Discrimination; the Anti-Hazing and Anti-Bullying; the Prohibition of Fraternities and Sororities in Elementary and Secondary Schools; and the Convention on the...

In an earlier press briefing in Malacañang, DepEd Office of the Undersecretary for Administration Alain Del Pascua said there is an initial list of at least 100 schools, both public and private, for the pilot run should the bill passed into a law before the 17th Congress officially adjourns on June 7.

In the ROTC curriculum and implementation, DepEd wants to ensure that “patriotism, nationalism, and core values” and Filipino “citizenship, civic duty, and discipline” would be highlighted.

 

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