THE RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES OF

TEACHERS IN THE PHILIPPINES

BRENDA B.CORPUZ, PhD
AVELINA T. LLAGAS, EdD

DISCUSSANT:
RAINIER IAN ABILA
 Filipino teachers ought to be aware and knowledgeable of these
well-deserved benefits.
There is no other constitution in the history of the country that
has given importance to teacher more than the 1987 phil.
Constitution.

The 1987 Philippine Constitution states:… The state shall enhance

the right of teachers to professional advancement (paragraph 4,). It
shall “assign the highest budgetary priority to education to “ensure
the teaching will attract and retain its rightful share of the best
available talents through adequate remuneration and other means of
job satisfaction and fulfillment.

Commonwealth Act 578 amended the Revised Penal Code to

include teachers, professor, and person charged with the supervision
of public of duly recognized private schools, colleges, and
universities, within the term “person in authority.
 RA 4670, otherwise known as The Magna Carta for Public School Teachers,
details the rights, privileges and benefits of teachers such as:

1) Consent for transfer

2) Safeguards in disciplinary produces
3) no discrimination
4) Married couples to be employed in the same locality
5) Academic freedom
6) not more than 6 hours of actual classroom teaching
7) Additional compensation for activities outside normal duties
8) Salaries comparable to other occupations to insure teachers a
reasonable standard of life for themselves and their families
9) Salaries appropriated by local governments not to be less than those paid to
teachers of the national government
10) Cost of living allowance
11) Special hardship allowances
12) Medical examination free of charge once a year during the
teachers professional life.
13) Prohibition of unauthorized deduction from teachers salaries
14) Study leave
15) Indefinite leave
16) Salary increase upon retirement
17) Freedom to establish or join organization of their choice.

These show that the welfare of professional teachers has been

given mush attention. After all there is no truth to what is often sais
about teachers “overworked and underpaid.