Why DepEd Rejects Calls for Academic Freeze
DEPED – The Department of Education explained its decision of rejecting calls for academic freeze.
Currently, schools are implementing a different kind of mode in the delivery of education due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines. Elementary and secondary schools now are not adapting the face-to-face delivery of lessons.
Instead, blended learning is used. Teachers come up with modules that are distributed to the students for them to answer and there are also online classes through Google classroom.
Undeniably, amid the new mode of teaching, there are calls for academic freeze. There are students who are having a hard time for having no gadgets to use nor the internet connection in their area is poor.
Recently, typhoons Rolly and Ulysses hit several areas in Luzon hard. Modules of students and even gadgets used in online learning were damaged by flood.
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President Rodrigo Roa Duterte placed Luzon under a state of calamity following the onslaught of Typhoon Ulysses. There are calls for academic freeze in typhoon-hit areas.
However, DepEd stands firm on rejecting the calls for academic freeze. Based on a report on ABS-CBN News, Education Undersecretary Diosdado San Antonio said on ANC that what they are implementing instead is “academic ease”.
According to the Education official, the said move is to help the teachers and the students affected by the typhoons. Based on the report, he stressed that DepEd stands on not stopping education so as not to hamper the kids from learning the skills they can have to earn someday.
“We want the youngsters of our generation to be able to learn because we know, world studies are clear, the moment we stopped… will have massive impact in their lives economically. Their capacity to earn is affected,” San Antonio said.
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