Four Camarines Sur-based congressmen are batting for the increase in salaries of public school teachers, as well as a permanent allowance for their teaching supplies.
“Despite their heavy workload and essential role as agents of constructive intellectual, social, cultural, political and moral change in our society, our public school teachers are among the most underpaid workers in the country,” said Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte, who led the solons in filing the related measures.
Meanwhile, in HB No.1849, the Bicolanos expressed their desire to make permanent the P5,000 school supplies allowance that public school teachers have been entitled to during the Covid-19 pandemic. They said this would lessen the teachers’ burden in coughing up their personal money to deliver education services during the hybrid learning system of face-to-face and remote or online teaching.
“Increasing their takehome pay and providing for a permanent teaching supplies allowance with a provision for a steady bump per schoolyear will hopefully incentivize them to strive for excellence in their field and make teaching a more attractive profession for our students,” said Villafuerte, president of the National Unity Party .
“This situation also makes the teaching profession unattractive to the youth, especially to the cream of the crop graduates from top colleges and universities in the country. Moreover, labor groups and teacher associations have been lobbying for years to increase teachers’ compensation by upgrading their salary grade,” they said.
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