President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. issued the Department of Education’s (DepEd) most recent marching order a few days after appointing Sen. Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara as the new Education Secretary.
The directive was to take care of the teachers.
DepEd was also given instructions by President Marcos to ensure that teachers could adequately feed their families.
“So, I said, we have to take care of the teachers. We have to, of course, financial[ly] to make sure that they can feed their families. Kasi we tend to forget sometimes that teachers have families,” President Marcos explained.
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“We see them just as teachers. They have families and they have to take care of their families. And they cannot teach properly kung inaalala nila ‘yung lagay ng pamilya nila so we have to make sure that they are in good place so that the teachers can concentrate on actual teaching,” he added.
