Same old problems, severe shortages to mark school opening – teachers’ group

Based on its own monitoring, the Alliance of Concerned Teachers said that teachers from 15 regions nationwide have reported “lamentable conditions” of public schools all over the country. “We are about to enter yet another school year, but teachers from 15 regions report of the same old problems plaguing their schools,” said ACT Secretary General Raymond Basilio.

For instance, ACT said that in Regions I and VI, “students and teachers are cramped in makeshift classrooms made out of yero .” In Region V, on the other hand, students and teachers “hold classes in nipa huts.” ACT noted that actual classrooms “still remain to be cramped and suffer from poor ventilation.” Teachers allegedly report that “they themselves and sometimes parents provide electric fans for rooms, such as in the cases of Region III and IX” while “some parents also provide their children their own seats as the available ones at school are limited.”

Aside from classrooms and other facilities, ACT said that students and teachers are also bound to suffer due to lack of instructional materials and other resources. The group has also “documented deficits” in learning resources which include K to 12 books from Elementary to Senior High School , instructional materials for SHS students, as well as Information and Technology equipment.

ACT cited a school in Region VIII that only has three “functioning computers out of the 20 units, which all grade 4 students and above are supposed to share.” Meanwhile, in Region IV-B, the group said that “10 computers are shared by at least 240 students.” These, ACT said, “oblige teachers to acquire laptops through loans for use in classes, especially since DepEd rates them on their use of ICT despite no provision for it.

ACT lamented that teachers’ “already low salary is further eroded by the steep increase in the prices of basic commodities, rendering paltry increases ineffective in raising teachers’ standard of living.” The group further denounced the teachers’ “overworked and underpaid condition.”

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