Sa Public School at sa elementary. Ayon yan sa DepEd Memo no.392. Ginawa raw ito para ang mga kabataan ay ma-enjoy ang kanilang childhood at para magkaraoon ng panahon para sa pamilya.
Hmmm. Agree ba kayo dito?
MANILA, Philippines—It’s TGIF (Thank God, it’s Friday) for public elementary students as the Department of Education (DepEd) has prohibited their teachers from giving homework during the weekend.
DepEd Memorandum No. 392, issued on Sept. 16, ordered teachers to avoid giving assignments to students over the weekend so they could bond with their families.
“No homework/assignments shall be given during weekends [so] pupils can enjoy their childhood and spend quality time with their parents without being burdened by the thought of doing homework,” said Education Secretary Armin Luistro in his memo.
The order was addressed to DepEd bureau directors, regional directors, school division and city superintendents and heads of public elementary schools nationwide. The memo covers more than 12.5 million students attending some 37,600 public elementary schools across the country.
Noting the amount of effort that goes into making assignments, Luistro’s memo said teachers should give a “reasonable” amount of work to be done at home “to give their pupils ample time to rest and relax at home for the rest of the day.”
No more quality time
“Common homework/assignments may include a period of reading to be done and writing to be completed, problems to be solved and projects to be worked on, among others. The purpose of which is for pupils to increase their knowledge and improve their abilities and skills,” Luistro said.
“However, it has been observed that parents complain [that pupils] have too much homework/assignments, which rob them and their children of quality time to be together in more enjoyable activities,” the memo added.
But the Teachers’ Dignity Coalition (TDC) said doing weekend homework was a worthwhile way for parents and their children to spend quality time together.
“In reality, making assignments is a way for parents and their children to bond,” said TDC spokesperson Emma Policarpio.
She said teachers would know how much work to give students for the weekend and said assignments were meant to “develop self-learning, self-discipline and time management” skills even without the supervision of teachers.
“The DepEd has good intentions for the memo ... But teachers know what kind of assignments to give students—those that they can do on their own. Homework is not intended to burden children,” Policarpio said.
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