Teaching is not about money but about public service, Education Secretary Leonor Briones told her constituents last week. She was right — at least about the public service part. Teaching is also a job and not volunteer work. One has to have certain qualifications to teach, in exchange for which the successful applicant correctly expects…
Tags: Alliance of Concerned Teachers
Teachers reporting more toilets converted to faculty rooms
“Sec. Briones’ tirade against teachers proves that DepEd does not intend to give teachers any dignity. First, they neglect us in schools by not providing us a proper office, then they oppose our just call for better pay.”
Teachers bear the brunt of Comelec’s inefficiency on election day
“Not only did they have to be resourceful in troubleshooting the machines and in exhausting all possible means to ensure that the voting process continues immediately, but they also had to endure voters’ irk and disappointment in the resulting chaos and long lines in polling precincts.”
Workers press gov’t for national minimum wage
“As hardworking Filipinos who struggle to support our families through honorable means, we deserve no less than wages and salaries that would afford us humane living conditions. We say enough of the Duterte government’s neglect of our plight.” By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – Workers from the public and private sectors joined forces…
Leader of teachers’ alliance gets death threat
The anti-poor and anti-teacher Duterte administration cannot expect us to cower amid continuing harassments.”
Spoken fiction
By DEE AYROSO
Public school teachers hold NCR-wide sit-down strike for substantial salary increase
“Teachers are drowning in debt.”
Public school teachers to hold sit-down strike
“Join us in our strike on Nov. 29 and show this government our rage.”
PNP Chief’s statement is chilling, violates academic freedom – educators
‘Fear history for no secret is not revealed.’
World Teachers Day|Teachers demand salary hike amid price increases
“Amid the opposition to this measure by Duterte, Education Secretary Leonor Briones, Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno and the rest of the economic managers, teachers are even more adamant in demanding for their immediate pay hike.”
Public school teachers to hold ‘Red October’ on World Teachers Day
“To peaceably assemble for redress of our grievances is well within the rights of teachers, especially on Oct. 5 when the state should demonstrate that teachers should be honored.”