ACT said that “teacher victims” were demanding for relief during the agency’s three-day consultation cum relief distribution operations in 13 towns in Albay and Camarines Norte from Nov. 24 to 26.
ACT said it met with teachers and school heads in the towns of Oas, Tabuco, Lagonoy, Sipocot, and Pili in Camarines Sur; and Tabaco and Jovellar in Albay. Basilio narrated that teachers have to find contacts with generator sets or travel to towns where there is electricity just so that they can print modules for their students.
He added that teachers were burdened with deadlines for paper work and reports despite the widespread brownout and difficulties in internet signal. Teachers were also made to report to school for module distribution and other tasks. Basilio pointed to the lack of clear directives from the DepEd Central Office regarding the adjustments on the conduct of distance learning in calamity-stricken areas as the culprit behind the added burdens to Bicol’s teachers.