Duterte signs GMRC bill into law
Published Jun 25, 2020 12:00 am
By Argyll Geducos and Vanne Elaine Terrazola
President Duterte on Thursday signed into law the measure that requires Good Manners and Right Conduct (GMRC) and Values Education to be part of the K to 12 curriculum.
President Rodrigo Roa Duterte (ACE MORANDANTE/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO)
The new law institutionalizes a comprehensive GMRC and Values Education program in the present basic education curriculum, replacing the current Edukasyon sa Pagpapakatao subject.
Under Republic Act 11476, the GMRC and Values Education Act, GMRC is defined as the certain and particular universally accepted basic social values and etiquette and/or proper modes of behavior that convey respect to those whom one interacts with.
Values Education, meanwhile, refers to the process that provides young people internalization of values which aims at student's grasp of underlying principles together with the ability to act on those principles, and the settled disposition to do so.
GMRC will be integrated into the daily activities of kindergarten students while it will be taught as a separate subject for students in Grades 1 to 6.
It will be integrated into the Values Education subject which will be taught to Grades 7 to 10 students.
Senior high school students, meanwhile, will have Values Education integrated into all of their subjects.
In 2013, GMRC was removed as a regular subject from the K to 12 curriculum when Values Education was integrated with other subjects such as Edukasyon sa Pagpapakatao and Araling Panlipunan.
Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri, author of the Senate bill, lauded the signing into law of the measure.
“The signing of the GMRC and Values Education Act is really timely, and I want to thank the President for his swift action on this important measure,” said Zubiri, who was a principal author of the measure in the Senate.
Zubiri called on the Department of Education (DepEd) to craft the law's implementing rules and regulations in time for the opening of classes on August 24, especially as the education shifts to blended and distance learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“With many schools set on implementing distance learning, it’s going to be even more vital that we give our students formative guidance through GMRC and Values Education,” he said.
“Kids are going to be at home all day, learning in isolation from their peers. They’re not going to have the natural avenues for empathetic learning that springs from face-to-face interaction with their peers and with their teachers. Hopefully, a strengthened GMRC and Values Education program will make up for that,” he added.
President Rodrigo Roa Duterte (ACE MORANDANTE/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO)
The new law institutionalizes a comprehensive GMRC and Values Education program in the present basic education curriculum, replacing the current Edukasyon sa Pagpapakatao subject.
Under Republic Act 11476, the GMRC and Values Education Act, GMRC is defined as the certain and particular universally accepted basic social values and etiquette and/or proper modes of behavior that convey respect to those whom one interacts with.
Values Education, meanwhile, refers to the process that provides young people internalization of values which aims at student's grasp of underlying principles together with the ability to act on those principles, and the settled disposition to do so.
GMRC will be integrated into the daily activities of kindergarten students while it will be taught as a separate subject for students in Grades 1 to 6.
It will be integrated into the Values Education subject which will be taught to Grades 7 to 10 students.
Senior high school students, meanwhile, will have Values Education integrated into all of their subjects.
In 2013, GMRC was removed as a regular subject from the K to 12 curriculum when Values Education was integrated with other subjects such as Edukasyon sa Pagpapakatao and Araling Panlipunan.
Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri, author of the Senate bill, lauded the signing into law of the measure.
“The signing of the GMRC and Values Education Act is really timely, and I want to thank the President for his swift action on this important measure,” said Zubiri, who was a principal author of the measure in the Senate.
Zubiri called on the Department of Education (DepEd) to craft the law's implementing rules and regulations in time for the opening of classes on August 24, especially as the education shifts to blended and distance learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“With many schools set on implementing distance learning, it’s going to be even more vital that we give our students formative guidance through GMRC and Values Education,” he said.
“Kids are going to be at home all day, learning in isolation from their peers. They’re not going to have the natural avenues for empathetic learning that springs from face-to-face interaction with their peers and with their teachers. Hopefully, a strengthened GMRC and Values Education program will make up for that,” he added.