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City of Olongapo
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Title:The Duties and Responsibilities of Teachers, Students and Parents

Module 5
I Introduction:
Rights, privileges and benefits are always coupled with duties and obligations. Batas
Pambansa Bilang 232 where we read these rights , benefits, and privileges also contains the
teachers , students, and parents’ duties and obligations.
Read on and reflect on these duties and obligations.

II Objectives
At the end of the module, you are expected to be able:
1. develop awareness on the duties and obligations of teachers, students and parents,
2. perform the duties and obligations of the teachers

III Teaching Materials and Learning Tools

Batas Pambansa Bilang 232 - Education Act of 1982

IV Topic and Key Concepts

The Duties and Responsibilities of Teachers, Students, and Parents

CHAPTER 3
Duties and Obligations

Section 14. Duties of Parents. - In addition to those provided for under existing laws, all parents
shall have the following duties and obligations:

1. Parents, individually or collectively, through the school systems, shall help carry out the
educational objectives in accordance with national goals.

2. Parents shall be obliged to enable their children to obtain elementary education and shall
strive to enable them to obtain secondary and higher education in the pursuance of the right
formation of the youth.

3. Parents shall cooperate with the school in the implementation of the school program
curricular and co-curricular.

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City of Olongapo
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COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, ARTS AND SCIENCES
Olongapo City Sports Complex, Donor St., East Tapinac, Olongapo City 2200
Telefax No.: (047) 602-7175 loc 322

Section 15. Duties and Responsibilities of Students - In addition to those provided for under existing
laws, every student shall:

1. Exert his utmost to develop his potentialities for service, particularly by undergoing an
education suited to his abilities, in order that he may become an asset to his family and to
society.

2. Uphold the academic integrity of the school, endeavor to achieve academic excellence
and abide by the rules and regulations governing his academic responsibilities and moral
integrity.

3. Promote and maintain the peace and tranquility of the school by observing the rules and
discipline, and by exerting efforts to attain harmonious relationships with fellow students, the
teaching and academic staff and other school personnel.

4. Participate actively in civic affairs and in the promotion of the general welfare, particularly
in the social, economic and cultural development of his community and in the attainment of a
just, compassionate and orderly society.

5. Exercise his rights responsibly in the knowledge that he is answerable for any
infringement or violation of the public welfare and of the rights of others.

Section 16. Teacher's Obligations - Every teacher shall:

1. Perform his duties to the school by discharging his responsibilities in accordance with the
philosophy, goals, and objectives of the school.

2. Be accountable for the efficient and effective attainment of specified learning objectives in
pursuance of national development goals within the limits of available school resources.

3. Render regular reports on performance of each student and to the latter and the latter's
parents and guardians with specific suggestions for improvement.

4. Assume the responsibility to maintain and sustain his professional growth and
advancement and maintain professionalism in his behavior at all times.

5. Refrain from making deductions in students' scholastic rating for acts that are clearly not
manifestations of poor scholarship.

6. Participate as an agent of constructive social, economic, moral, intellectual, cultural and

political change in his school and the community within the context of national policies.

V- Learning Tasks
A. Read the Duties and Obligation of teachers, students and parents.
B. Answer the following questions.
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Olongapo City Sports Complex, Donor St., East Tapinac, Olongapo City 2200
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1. Teachers are to be blame if students are not learning. Do you agree? Explain your
answer. (5 points)
- After a certain age child, particularly teens do need to start taking a responsibility
and an active interest in their own learning. Yes, you are entitled to an education
but you don't earn a good qualification or good skills unless you're willing to invest
in those things. Life and work don’t give you everything you want for nothing in
return so why should school teach you to have that false impression? On the other
hand, though kids who genuinely struggle deserve to have an education that is
tailored to suit them however for a variety of reasons that are out of your teachers
control it doesn't. Most teachers do their best to support kids but unfortunately a
large part of the problem isn't caused by their inability to teach a disadvantaged kid
it's to do with the government and the education system as a whole. Teachers are a
small piece in a very large picture a student.

2. Why is a student suspended when he leads or participates in brawls? Explain your

answer. (5 points)
- When school officials suspend students, the idea is to maintain a safe environment
and deter violence and other problematic behavior on the school campus.
3. Write 1 action of teachers that violate section 16 of the Chapter 3 of Batas
Pambansa 232. ( 10 points)
- If the Teacher having serious health problems which have made it even harder for
them to focus and be energetic for the kids. So, they are unable to do all the cool
things with their students and things that they haven’t yet done but wanted to do.
Their passive aggressiveness has kicked in, and they just backed away from
everything with big disinterest, making them look ineffective and uncaring.
(Due on Sept 23)

VI Reference
Batas Pambansa Bilang 232
https://www.lawphil.net/statutes/bataspam/bp1982/bp_232_1982.html

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