Or, baka hindi kayanin ng private sector tapatan, baka magsara ‘yung private sector (Or, the private sector might not be able to match the salary of the public schools and they might close down),” Poa said. “If we make it too high, it will really affect the private sector because teachers might transfer from private sector to the government. The DepEd spokesperson explained that increasing the basic salary of teachers might affect the manpower of the private education sector so they need to balance it out. Non-basic wage benefitsĪside from off-loading administrative tasks, Poa said that DepEd was also looking into giving “non-basic wage” benefits to teachers to augment their salaries. Though the President mentioned “promising” plans for the education recovery, teachers’ welfare was left out. “In the absence of these, teachers were forced to take on these functions that has considerably taken a lot of their time and effort from teaching,” ACT said.ĪCT is an organization composed of some 300,000 public and private school teachers in the country.įor years, teachers have complained of paperwork piling up that hinders them from preparing lessons.ĭuterte’s plan for the welfare of teachers was asked during the press briefing because this was not mentioned during the first State of the Nation Address of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. But the group said that aside from non-teaching personnel handling administrative tasks, the DepEd should also provide all schools with their own nurses, registrars, custodians, clerks, librarians, security guards and utility workers. In a statement, the Alliance of Concerned Teachers welcomed Duterte’s plan. To complement that, we will perhaps have to hire non-teaching staff to handle those things, at least for the teachers,” he added. “Our plan for now, we need to upskill our teachers. “What will happen is that, our department headed by the Vice President and Secretary Sara Duterte is planning to ease off the administrative tasks from teachers because we noticed that aside from teaching, they also have administrative tasks,” Poa said in a mix of English and Filipino, when asked about Duterte’s plans for the welfare of teachers. This plan was bared by Michael Poa, spokesperson of the Department of Education (DepEd), during the joint press briefing with the Office of the Vice President (OVP) held on Wednesday, July 27, at the DepEd Central Office in Pasig City.
MANILA, Philippines – In a bid to “upgrade” teaching standards of basic education in the country, Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte is eyeing to take out administrative tasks from teachers so they could focus more on teaching.
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