Originally Posted by
THE KID
ang emphasis ani nga system is to allocate adequate time to tackle sa every subject matter..tungod sa kadghan karon og loads sa mga bata....taphaw ra ang pag discuss sa ubang subjects....mao ng unahon ang reading og writing kai mao man jud nai basic..awahi na ang science...
which precisely argues my point.
the entire duration of a today's class is more or less 5 hours, instead of the standard whole day of 8 hours. this is due to lack of advance planning/budgeting for classrooms to accommodate for a ballooning student population. the new schedule reduces each subject from the previous 45min to an hour, down to mere 30 minutes at present. add to that the burden of newly introduced subjects...
by placing more time and focusing on mere reading and writing classes and removing science subjects, DepEd essentially acknowledges that a mere
30-minute class is not enough for any effective teaching to happen.
but the point here is that this should not be a matter of what subject to prioritize, but how much time we allocate for each subject on an entire day's worth of classes. this should be the given that policy-making should not dismiss, but instead work for.