In a statement, ACT Philippines spokesperson Ruby Bernardo described the public school educators’ non-stop teaching for six hours daily as “simply inhumane,” saying that the DepEd has “maxed [them] up” with such practice. She also said that other teachers had to do workloads that sometimes exceeded six hours.
“It is equivalent to 6 to 9 classes handled daily for 40 minutes to one hour class time, depending on the subject taught. Dapat i-konsidera rin na ang mga klaseng ito ay bumibilang mula 45 hanggang 60 estudyante o higit pa. Sobrang piga na sa pagod ang ating mga guro pagkatapos ng maghapon na pagtuturo, at ang nalalabing dalawang oras ng trabaho sa isang araw ay napupunta pa paggawa ng mga reports at non-teaching duties,” Bernardo said.
“Overworking our teachers is counterproductive to education recovery. We need less teaching and non-teaching load. We need more time to prepare our lessons and fulfill other teaching-related duties to be able to deliver quality teaching,” she said. Section 13 of the Magna Carta For Public School Teachers states that teachers engaged in actual classroom instruction “shall not be required to render more than six hours of actual classroom teaching a day, which shall be so scheduled as to give him time for the preparation and correction of exercises and other work incidental to his normal teaching duties.”
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