On Monday, September 20, 2021, Malacañang announced President Rodrigo Duterte's approval for the pilot run of the limited face-to-face classes in areas with low risk for COVID-19.
According to
DepEd Secretary Leonor Briones, they will have a very strict implementation of
health standards. Furthermore, the protocol for preparing the school will also
include school personnel, students, and the community before the school
reopening.
Only 120
schools are allowed to join the two-month pilot reopening run. The pilot run
covers a limit of 100 public schools and 20 private institutions jointly
validated by the DepEd and Department of Health (DOH). The schools to join
should be considered low-risk and had passed the readiness assessment.
The list of schools to
participate in the pilot run has yet to release according to DepEd
The
kindergarten will only cover 12 learners, 26 learners for grades 1 to 3, and 20
learners for the technical-vocational strand in Senior High School.
Kindergarten
to Grade 3 learners will only be in the classroom for a limit of three hours.
In addition to this, senior high school learners can only attend the class for
a limit of four hours. The face-to-face classes will be conducted half-day
every other week so that all the qualified students will have equal opportunity
to attend.
The DepEd
requires the consent of guardians of students who will partake in the pilot
run. "Learners shall not be forced to attend the pilot implementation of
face-to-face classes," said, Secretary Briones
Secretary
Leonor Briones added that for those schools who are excluded from the pilot
run, the distance learning modality will keep on being carried out.
Source:
Rappler
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