PUBLIC schools affected by the series of class suspensions because of the country’s hosting of this year’s Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) summit are not required to hold make-up classes or add extra hours on school days if the required 180 days of non-negotiable teacher-pupil contact time is still intact, the Department of Education (DepEd) said over the weekend.

“The school calendar contains more or less 204 school calendar days, and to deliver all the modules effectively, we only require 180 days of actual contact time among the teachers and our students. If you go below that, then we conduct make-up classes for our students by way of Saturday classes or extended school hours on weekdays if applicable, if there’s no shifting happening,” Education Undersecretary Tonisito Umali told The Manila Times.

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