DepEd starts monthlong ‘remote enrollment’ on June 1 amid COVID-19 pandemic

“Making physical appearance in school for enrollment purposes shall be the last option for parents or guardians or learners,” said Education Secretary Leonor Briones.

Aside from gauging the number of public school students expected to enroll this school year — which could top last year’s 23 million students given private school transferees — the enrollment period will allow schools to collect data that can reshape what learning looks like in the country.Briones has said that even as DepEd plows ahead with opening classes on Aug. 24, face-to-face interaction will likely still be prohibited.

“If this is any indication of how the government will fulfill its obligations relative to the August school opening, we are in for great dangers.” “Prior to the pandemic there was a steady decline [in private school enrollment] that reached 25 percent year in year out,” Estrada said at a virtual Senate hearing on May 21. “But we’re anticipating more.”

Further complicating matters is whether DepEd is prepared to handle a flood of new enrollees given the perennial classroom shortages. As it stands, DepEd was already grappling with how to decongest these spaces in an era of physical distancing.“Definitely private school kids will either migrate to public schools or will totally drop out,” Education Undersecretary for Planning Jesus Mateo said at the hearing.

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