‘High school nonreaders a failure of division and elementary schools’home/Campus Press/‘High school nonreaders a failure of division and elementary schools’The Department of Education (DepEd) national office said the problem of nonreaders in high school falls on the shoulders of the lower rungs of the agency, particularly on the division and the elementary school levels. Jabines said that the principals of the elementary schools where the Grade 7 nonreaders come from were to blame for the irregularity because they attested that the students satisfactorily completed the curriculum. She said it was the job of principals to see to it that elementary school graduates were able to read. Tuguinayo maintained that the presence of nonreaders in high school does not reflect on the national DepEd because they were performing their mandate the best they could. The Phil-IRI manual requires the consolidation of the results of the reading tests at the school, district, division and regional levels with the regional reading profile submitted to the Bureau of Elementary Education of the DepEd.

Source: Manila Times March 13, 2019 16:35 UTC