The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly affected schools, forcing an early end to school year (SY) 2019-2020 and a possible late start for SY 2020-2021. Several sectors are calling for classes to be postponed until December 2020 while the Inter Agency…
The Department of Education (DepEd) eyes smaller class size next year, to help combat the threat of COVID-19. However, this will prove more difficult to implement, particularly with the perennial problem of classroom shortage in the Philippines. To solve that,…
A college teacher ranks #6 in the November 2019 Bar Exams, becoming a lawyer after studying Law while teaching. Kenneth Manuel is actually a certified public accountant (CPA) who taught Basic, Cost and Management Accounting as well as other subjects…
He works as construction worker to support himself and his family but Michael Español also became an inspiration to many for still going to school and even graduating as valedictorian! Wow. At their house in Gueguesangen, Mangaldan in Pangasinan, the…
Due to the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ), everyone is told to stay at home. Mass gatherings are prohibited – and that includes classes and the usual end-of-school-year rites such as graduations and moving up ceremonies. A lot of students felt…
President Rodrigo Duterte has approved the recommendation of the Inter Agency Task Force (IATF) against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to move the opening of classes for SY 2020-2021 to September, instead of the usual June schedule. “Lahat ng eskuwelahan…
Grade 6 students recently earned praise for sharing their class savings to COVID-19 cause, even if they could have kept the money for themselves! The sweet gesture went viral, with many netizens saying that these students are role models to…
Bb. Pilipinas-Universe 2011 Shamcey Supsup-Lee is more than just a pretty face! Before finishing as the third runner-up in Miss Universe 2011, Shamcey already had excellent achievements in the academic field. She recently admitted to being ‘grade conscious’ for most…
Public school teachers in Central Visayas were able to raise nearly Php4 million for COVID-19 frontliners. For their kindness, the teachers were praised by netizens who wished that everyone else would be as generous and thoughtful as them. It could…
Teachers are not just educators, but many also become their students’ second parents. And that role is religiously accepted by many teachers, many of whom go above and beyond their call of duty to help their learners. Take for example…