1. Our teachers are trained educators.

We know the value of

homework. It’s about discipline, responsibility, and continuity of
learning.

2. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.

3. Today, I will present to you level of analysis on the importance

of why we don’t need to pass no homework policy.

4. First, no homework policy is not practicable in our country due

to a very high teacher-to-student ratio in primary and
secondary education.

5. DepEd Undersecretary Jesus Mateo said the teacher-student

ratio to 1:31 for elementary and senior high school and 1:36 for
junior high school. The current DepEd parameter limits the
students to a maximum of 30 per class in kindergarten, 35 in
Grades 1 to 3, and 40 in Grades 5 to 12, but there is pending
legislation that would allow the class size at 35 to 50 students,
according to a March 29 story of the Philippine Star.

6. Second, homework is critical because there is specific

classroom hours-per-semester and coverage of material to be
complied with the DepEd.

7. The teacher of a one-hour subject with classes held twice or

thrice a week cannot physically comply with the requirements,
and thus “extra work” or “make-up” must be assigned. Besides,
the teacher must be able to mark and grade the student by
the individually submitted assignments, aside from quizzes and
exams, the latter being too late for both the teacher and the
student to remedy. Recitation cannot go around adequately in
 a class of 30 to 45 pupils, especially if the pupils were not
assigned “homework” to prepare for the next meeting for that
subject.

8. Homework, or additional “research,” or supplemental work

after, and above and beyond, class lectures, seat work, and
recitations are an integral and necessary part of the
meticulously calibrated, scientific design of education, to be
guided and controlled by the syllabus and course outlines from
basic to secondary school to collegiate, masteral and
doctoral. For almost five centuries of the Philippine educational
system, the Filipino child expected, needed, and accepted
“homework” or outside-the-classroom work to supplement
what was being taught in the schools. “Read pages so-and-so
as your homework for tomorrow/next meeting” is the familiar
closing remark of almost every teacher/professor to the class.

9. Lastly, Lawmakers should have done their homework on their

dangerous “No-homework” proposal.

10. The molding of principles and values will be retarded with

less training in responsibility and discipline that would have
prepared our young students early on for the realities and
challenges of adult life. In basic education, the child is ushered
into community life outside the controlled environment of the
home, where, in the classroom there are individual roles,
responsibilities and deliverables under supervision and
guidance of an authority who is not a parent. Up the
educational ladder, performance is measured and marked,
which builds the instinctive discipline to comply and abide by
rules and earn “promotion” by the quality and quantity of
incremental mental, emotional, and physical development in
progress. School is a preparation for a career or profession, not
only in terms of the curriculum vitae but in the ingrained values
of discipline and responsibility learned above academics. And
even in a job or a practice, there is always homework and
continuing education!