Charles Teves
A female teacher accidentally included a portion of a Facebook conversation with her boyfriend on her student’s class modules.
Facebook page Hugot Sa Gugma shared the photo that immediately went viral on social media.
“I love you,” and “Love you too” were exchanged in the General Mathematics module.
This is amid the nationwide reports of students’ modules being too difficult to understand and the struggle of parents, students, and teachers in the new learning system.
A man named Shin, who is a college graduate, told a media outlet that he found it difficult to understand his cousin’s 4th grade English lesson which is posted on the website of the Department of Education (DepEd).
The boy’s father couldn’t comprehend the lesson as well.
“As a college graduate, even I could not understand the questions in the modules and I don’t think the questions are answerable by young students. If we can’t understand the question, how much more the students?” Shin said in an interview.
“I am sure that students will be able to adapt [to the new learning modalities], but I don’t think they will be able to properly absorb the lessons. Even as students struggle to understand the contents of the modules, some parents also do not have the capacity to teach their children,” he added.
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DepEd Secretary Leonor Briones previously denied that the agency was responsible for a module that contained “dirty names.”
“It’s not DepEd, it’s material produced by a review center for teachers for particular subjects,” DepEd Secretary Briones said during the Senate hearing on DepEd’s proposed 2021 budget.
“We are wondering why it is attributed to DepEd. Review center ito. And ito ay particular subject for grown-ups. But that is not excused at all,” she added.
A question in the self-learning module had “Pining Garcia,” “Abdul Salsalani,” “Malou Wang” and “Tina Moran” as choices.
“I just want to emphasize again that that post is not used in schools. In the first place, schools have not yet opened. It’s a review center located in a very remote place in Zambales…There is clearly malice involved,” Briones said.
There have also been reports of students committing suicide related to issues about the new modules.
A student named Makoy killed himself recently after his teacher rejected his module because he passed it late.
The internet connection in his cousin’s house where he was living wasn’t stable. Following the rejection, Makoy destroyed his phone that he used for online learning and the WiFi router. His older brother then found him lifeless inside his room.
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Netizens called on teachers nationwide to consider their students’ assignments and requirements as not everyone has the right tools for online learning.
