Albay Representative Joey Salceda said his House Bill No. 6247 aims to address the poor performance of Filipino students in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2018; the hesitation of local companies to hire K-12 graduates; and “depressingly deficient” content and effectiveness of learning materials.
The Schools Division Office (SDO) in the province also called on them to strictly follow the February 4-issued "STOP NCOV", the DepEd acronym that relates the precautionary measures they should undertake in educating students about the new strain of coronavirus.
Sometimes, the contributions of teachers to the development of tomorrow's generation, and indeed the country's overall development, are not acknowledged.
