ASHSians support gradual school calendar reversion

Department of Education (DepEd) released the DepEd Order No. 3, s. 2024 on February 19 stating that the current school year will conclude on May 29-31, respectively, while the opening of classes for the next school year will begin on July 29, 2024.

On a survey conducted across strands after the release of the DepEd Order, Seventy-seven percent (77%) of the Aurora Senior High School backed the re-opening of classes in July.

While most of the students supported this, there were still 23% of the 1,549 ASHSians who declined.

Based on the survey, the students who supported the reversion of the school calendar said that they are used to the original schedule besides the summer heat is unfavorable to learning.

“I support the DepEd memorandum; since last year, during the months of April and May, the heat was intense – I believe that returning the normal academic calendar will be more convenient for us,” Precious Rumbaoa, student of 12 - Fahrenheit said.

“I think mahihirapan lang naman tayo sa end ng sem na ito dahil pinaiksi kaya baka isisiksik ang mga lesson at activities natin.. Hindi naman biglaan na ibalik ang klase agad sa June” Fatima Manucdoc, Grade 11- Diamond, seconded.

Meanwhile, students who declined the school calendar reversion concern that there might be overloading of lessons and activities for this second semester which may be difficult to other learners to cope with. In an ambush interview, Jerico Rañeses of 11-Diamond said that he is not in favor to the newly released adjustment of the school calendar because it is quite late. According to him, as the time for learning for the second semester would get shorter lessons and activities will have less time as well to be properly executed.

In addition, Heherson David from TVL 11-Nephrite there is no need to revert the school calendar since students are already accustomed to the current school calendar.

“Hindi naman na kailangang baguhin yung schedule para sa susunod na school year, maraming estudyante na ang nakapag-adjust sa sitwasyong ito,” he told The Quest during an interview.

This move of the DepEd aims to gradually revert the school calendar to June without drastically affecting the vacation period of the learners and teachers.