M oles, 02 Oktubre 2019

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fioman Bomulo
BASAHAIN natin ang pay of public school teachers to include those in
apela ni Dr. Sigrid S. the provinces means the common problem of
Rodolfo ng Luzon private schools will be worsened
(Para sa anumang Technical lnstitute no Main Damaging Effectqof the Salary Gap on
sumbong at reaksivon, San Antonio, Zambale; our School: 1) Licensed teachers Oo riot
airpty
maq-text o tumawao sa at ng mga guro kay forany vacant position and we must accept ddsfr
ogia624o31 3. Maaiino Rep. Roman Romulo. college graduates, We train them for riyork in
ipadala ang inyon:g ang chairman nq teaching of subjects, classroom
lham sa e-mail addlDs..: discioline. makino
Committ€e on Basi; ofgrades, advising a class section and dealind
hpkffrre_l4@yah@.Nn) Education & Culture sa with parents and guardians while they prepare
lGmara noong SeptenF for the licensure exam. Then when theibetiheir
ber 13, 2019: license, most of them leave us. Thi Eycle is
"Sir: repeated for the next vacant positi6n; 2)
.in public
Be€ause of the manycomplicat€d problems
education, we don't have
Distraction bythe thought oJhigheipay in publi; to allow the sharing. Having received no reply, ln conclusion, we ask lhe government to
much chance schoots ruans the capacity for the role of second we repeat€d our appeal in September 2016 tb decrease the salary gap between private aDd
for attention from the Department ofEducation. parent. 3) Team spirit ofthe schootstaff jolted the new DepEd Secretary LeonorBriones. Since
is public schoolteachers in our area.
I he chairman ofthe senate committee on basic wh€n
a former member transfers to anbther a bad law seems to be involved, we brought the
education has two other important commiftees to schoolin town. r problem to newly elected president Duterle and .rmprovement
Supporting Points: 1) Moneyis ne€ded
of working
gofor
take care of. lt is thel.efore to your mmmittee in conditions
. slowed down).
the House of the Represe'ntatives lhat we (now
Gov€rnment action to help private schools in Oclober 2016 Malacaffan ordered her to reply towards . bett€r performance in educating
Subsidv for Students bv to ourappeal. lnApril 20'17 Underseqetary Jesua studenls in public schools: 2) Teachers should
address our appeal for consideration. especially ESC (Educational Sarvice Coritractino)
Monev i6 Mateo passed the appealon to PEAC Ex-ecutive sel an example on how to manage with
as you are more aware of conditions in the given toqualified private schools to h-tjlobav ihe
provinces. Director Rhodora Angela Ferrer lvho still has not ordinary family income by backyard gaidening,
fees of students selected as beneliciarids. 'That answered.
We are ajunior high school, nonstock, non- has been.of great help financially by aflowing pumping good waler from under the ground,
To continue the sharing we getthe consent
stah s-alaries. -
sectarian and supported bVa Foundation. Useof "nonstandard fees" to improve relying less on public transportation or hired labor
of the parents of latest designated beneficjaries
buildings and a large camtus is free bulwe musl
. Problems: a) Not allsiudents are designated and ourrelations have always been cordial.
for household tasks. This of course is not
operate the schoolusing studentfees. Thefees as beneficiaries. This places the schoolin;moral applicable under Manila conditions, and schoot
are keptdown as far as possible to be accessible dilemma ofhavlng to choose 2) Subsidyfor Licensed Teachers: Teach€rs
who would receive teachers there need higher pay.
to students from tamilies of ordinary income. Norr,/ the_9ubsidy, qnd placating Salary Supplement (TSS) Startins in Sy201.t -
those who would not; 2012, we have received a lump sr.rm to be given We hope our appeal will be given eamest
in our 7lst year of service lo oui town, g% of b) The subsidy given for Grade 7 is biggertha; consideration by your good committee. May it lead
our 286 students are scholar-assistants ;hosen that for upper grades which to licensed teachers to add td their salary:The
have hiqh;; fees to initialamount was + 10T, increasedtot 12Tfor to action to help private schools keep their
on the basis of their Entrance Exam Dlusfinancial pay; c)The hetp has stowed down:
need-
sulbsidy given
the next 2 SY's, then is now frozen al I 1g T for teachers and public schools improve their
per beneiciary has been fiozen in amount i&pite wo*ing conditions. Thank you."
The modest salaries we can qive to our the continuing need to improve staff salaries
teachers are very far from the pa/ in nearby minimize school fees. ;nd
the past 5 SY's.
Eagedy awaited to
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public schools. For example, ttr6 sltary of oui To uphold the value of iustice and allow have extra money
licensed leacher in her 6th year of service is kapatiran among all our slud-ents, forChristmas, the
we do away
less than halfthe starting pay 6f new teachers in with problems a) & b). The
subsidv is shareA TSS usually
public schools. Similarly. our Direc{or and princioal among
all our students, with lesser amount for arrived before
receive less than half the pay ol the pubtic sch;ol those whofailed a subjectthe preceeding December. But last
pflnctpat ot towest rank. Other private high tranferees Syor
schools in town charge much hiqtier fees th5n
who were not designated SY it was way too
benefi ciaries in their school of orioin. late, and arrived
ours, but the higher pay they give is sti very far ln February 2016, visiting repr;sentatives of Julythe next year.
trom what licensed leachers can get in piblic PEAC (Pdvate Educa on Asslstance Committee) The long delay
schools. Loss oftrained teachers foi that r;ason wam€d us sharing is not allowed, butcould offei distressed many
is also theirproblem. no acceptable altematlve. lmmediatelv we wrole private schools in
The recently announced intenlion to raise the an appealto then DepEd Secretary Armin
Luistro the provinces.