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DepEd orders ‘Juan time’ for all schools, offices

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Education Secretary Armin Luistro. INQUIRER file photo

In all schools across the country, the bells should ring at exactly the same time.

The Department of Education (DepEd) has ordered all schools and education offices across the country to synchronize their clocks and time recording devices as part of  the government’s program to set a standard Philippine time and beat the habit of being late.

In an order issued November 3, Education Secretary Armin Luistro directed all school heads, regional and Central Office officials to set all clocks and other timekeeping devices to the same time in order to “to synchronize all the activities of the DepEd from the Central Office to the school level.

“All DepEd offices are hereby directed to set all clocks in their offices and school properties, including time recording devices, to match Philippine Standard Time (PST),” Luistro said in DepEd Order No. 86.

The PST may be obtained on the website of the country’s official timekeeper, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (www.weather.gov.ph).

“It is therefore directed that all schedules—class times, meetings, activities, events be based on the PST. These schedules must start on time and end on time,” Luistro said.

The Department of Science and Technology recently launched the “Juan Time” project, which aims to set a standard time for all Filipinos in hopes of encouraging timeliness and to beat the Filipino habit of being late.


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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SOEVHIPPMHMHREOUIVH75FIVUE leonardoo

    Why Juan time? Why not Hirohito, or Yamashita, or say Harry time, for they represent people and places that practices “on time”. Juan is a Filipino, so Juan time is a Filipino time. I bet it will be in the long run.

  • Anonymous

    Congratulations, DepEd! Sec. Armin Luistro, at sampu ng iyong mga kasama sa DepEd, dapat kayong hangaan at tularan.:-) “Juan Time” is one small step that can make a giant leap for Filipinos and the Philippines to rise up to the Kabayanihan “Greatest Generation” Challenge to every Filipino, especially the Filipino Youth, to “Be On Time” thus making us able to “Honor Our Commitments” (No. 1 Little Thing in Alex Lacson’s New Book, 12 Little Things Our Youth Can Do To Help Our Country). Will the Leadership of our Higher Learning Institutions (HEIs) under CHED and TESDA follow suit and issue a corresponding Memorandum Order? Will our NSTP Students rise up to this challenge? Let’s beat this habit of being late. Let’s start now. We can start with ourselves first and then perhaps the rest of our peers can take the cue from us. Let’s make this “Juan Time” Campaign be a defining moment for us. May “Juan Time” make us Filipinos winners for most of the time if not all of the time. Sa kaganapa…

  • Anonymous

    bakit, iba ba ang oras ng deped sa ibang opisina. walang kinalaman yan juan time na yan sa pagiging late ng mga pinoy. kaya tayo di umasenso sa oras pa lang walang disiplina, laging dahilan trapik.

  • Anonymous

    Maybe the Dept of Justice could take a leaf out of Sec Luistro’s book and check their office clocks.  They always seem to have stopped when it comes to the wealthy and powerful in this country. 

    Another example this week.  If DOJ had evaluated the police evidence more quickly and found it to be as compelling as the rest of us believe it to be (for goodness sake there was an eye-witness at the scene who’s placed Ramona Bautista there making what seem to be incriminating statements; and her story changes by the minute), then maybe they could have charged her and at least made her subject to a hold departure order.

    Instead she’s flown the coop and now we have to listen to the Senator lecturing the DFA “to exert legal and diplomatic efforts to bring Ramona back to the country and face our justice system.”

    What a joke!!

  • Anonymous

    This is indeed the right move in pursuing the “Matuwid na Daan”. Basic Education is the point of origin of this path. Our educators must be united in laying the right foundation for our citizenry. By instilling useful and lifesaving positive values. The result may not be instantly felt, this might be felt ten (10) years from now. But I believe that, this must be implemented continuously. Good work….



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