Public elementary and high schools in Muntinlupa will resume face-to-face classes on June 5 after implementing blended learning for a month due to soaring temperatures.
In April, the Schools Division Office-Muntinlupa under the Department of Education (DepEd) implemented the blended learning modality in all 28 public elementary, and junior and senior high schools in Muntinlupa from May 2 to June 2.
Tunasan Elementary School in Barangay Tunasan, Muntinlupa (Photo from Tunasan Elementary School's Facebook page)
It was implemented to protect students and teachers from the rising temperatures and heat index, which “is a measure of the contribution that high humidity makes with abnormally high temperatures in reducing the body's ability to cool itself,” according to the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) under the Department of Science and Technology (DOST).
In a memo, Muntinlupa Schools Division Superintendent Evangeline Ladines announced “the resumption of the Face-to-Face classes on June 5, 2023 in all 28 public elementary, junior and senior high schools in this Division.”
“The shift to Blended Learning from May 2 to June 2, 2023, is the response of the SDO to the high heat index that dominated the country which caused health risks to our learners and teachers. All requests for the shift through the Complete Staff Work (CSW), were approved, thus effecting the implementation of the month-long modality of learning,” she said in the memo.
She added that “all schools are enjoined to adhere, in strict compliance, to the existing policies on the conduct of the Face-to-Face classes such as the wearing of the prescribed uniform, among others.”