“DepEd hiring 10,000 teachers with P1-billion Special Fund granted by GMA”. This is the banner news in Manila Bulletin today. Since it is DepEd’s intent to remedy the shortage of public elementary and secondary teachers, an amount of P1-billion was released to employ 10,000 teachers this school year.
Education Undersecretary for Finance and Administration Juan Miguel Luz said Education Secretary Edilberto de Jesus was able to secure early this year from GMA a special fund for the hiring of new teachers. Luz said that initially, 7,500 of the new posts will be filled up while the remaining 2,500 items will be converted to 1,600 new school principal positions to address the equally serious lack of principals in the public elementary and high schools.
I think this is a good gesture from the government to show it’s sincerity to moderate the problems of public elementary and secondary schools and the comfortable learning atmosphere between the teachers and students. This may boost the interest of the students to study harder. The teachers may have a wider view towards the problems occurring while she is in the classroom.
Full Version: Wanted: 10,000 Teachers
Interesting.
P1,000,000,000 / 10,000 = P100,000
Assume P100,000 is an annual salary figure ("to employ 10,000 teachers this schoolyear"). That would be P8,333 per month for each new teacher employed.
Questions:
1. What is the current average monthly pay for public school teachers?
2. Are there laws that restrict the pay scale for public school teachers to a certain level; if so, worrisome if the answer to (1) < than P8,333 per month. Will currently employed teachers allow the new hires to earn more than they do, because of the labor shortage problem?
P1,000,000,000 / 10,000 = P100,000
Assume P100,000 is an annual salary figure ("to employ 10,000 teachers this schoolyear"). That would be P8,333 per month for each new teacher employed.
Questions:
1. What is the current average monthly pay for public school teachers?
2. Are there laws that restrict the pay scale for public school teachers to a certain level; if so, worrisome if the answer to (1) < than P8,333 per month. Will currently employed teachers allow the new hires to earn more than they do, because of the labor shortage problem?
less than 100K/pa if you consider other things like classrooms and learning material. the divisor is not 12 months but 10 months. and these teachers will be casual hires and not subject to civil service standards.
QUOTE(mac_bolan00 @ Jun 23 2004, 02:23 AM)
less than 100K/pa if you consider other things like classrooms and learning material. the divisor is not 12 months but 10 months. and these teachers will be casual hires and not subject to civil service standards.
Because April-May is not included?
Wonder if this policy will work out well... All things equal some money is usually better than none but given the way funds can be "misallocated" I wonder...
when i was doing fieldwork way back, the sitio i worked in had a public school. now this place is not the kind many of you will ever reach: it's a 2-hour plod through a trail beyond the last pair of deep ruts that pass for a road. i was somewhere in the undeveloped portion of negros oriental. the school had 4 teachers, each receiving 1,000 a month. this was back when minimum wages in the metro manila was 1,800 and fresh grads had a crack at 2,000 to 2,500 starting.
that's the kind of teacher ate glo's looking for.
that's the kind of teacher ate glo's looking for.
QUOTE(mac_bolan00 @ Jun 23 2004, 01:10 PM)
when i was doing fieldwork way back, the sitio i worked in had a public school. now this place is not the kind many of you will ever reach: it's a 2-hour plod through a trail beyond the last pair of deep ruts that pass for a road. i was somewhere in the undeveloped portion of negros oriental. the school had 4 teachers, each receiving 1,000 a month. this was back when minimum wages in the metro manila was 1,800 and fresh grads had a crack at 2,000 to 2,500 starting.
that's the kind of teacher ate glo's looking for.
that's the kind of teacher ate glo's looking for.
These are the kinds of jobs that fresh Ateneo grads who sign up for Jesuit Volunteers Philippines end up doing. I believe they do it for a year, and if I am not mistaken they do it for free. Maybe Ate Glo can adapt some of JVP's interesting powers of influence and then taxpayers need not even shell out a peso for a year's worth of teaching service!
Assuming that four or so years in AdMU are prerequisites for deciding to join such a thing as JVP, and that only a small percentage of AdMU grads do sign up, AdMU will have to bump up its enrollment stats quite a bit if Ate Glo is to meet the demand for 10,000 teachers...
i may be a slimy atheist but i appreciate personal struggle. yes, i forgot that jesuits (and their disciples) often work in those places. mercifully, my stay there at sitio hinakpan lasted only 3 weeks. the daily regimen was i wake up at 4, eat a heavy breakfast and start walking at 5. i reach the work area at 7 and only then did the real work begin. we knock off at 4, walk home for another two hours, eat, down a long neck and be asleep by 8. i was receiving 1,800 at the time (pathetic for a fresh grad but a small fortune in that place at that time).
but honestly, do you really think the whole thing's worth the money and effort? i mean, formal education is fast becoming just an option. one can already do home schooling (assuming you have educated parents).
but honestly, do you really think the whole thing's worth the money and effort? i mean, formal education is fast becoming just an option. one can already do home schooling (assuming you have educated parents).
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