Friday is ‘Catch-Up Day’ for students’ reading skills – VP Sara

 

Vice President Sara Duterte attends the Senate's plenary deliberations on the 2024 budget of her office on Thursday, November 9, 2023. Duterte announced Thursday that she will no longer pursue the Office of the Vice President's request for P500 million in confidential funds next year. INQUIRER/ MARIANNE BERMUDEZ

Vice President Sara Duterte attends plenary deliberations of the Senate on the proposed 2024 budget for her office on Thursday, November 9, 2023. (File photo from INQUIRER/ MARIANNE BERMUDEZ)

MANILA, Philippines — Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte on Tuesday announced Fridays will be called “catch-up days.”

She said the initiative will go on throughout the term of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos.

The Vice President emphasized the need for a day dedicated to catching up on reading skills. On this day, kids will study nothing else but subjects that enhance their reading skills.

“Starting January 12, 2024, every Friday will be catch-up day, Fridays, particularly for reading,” she said.

She made the statement in her speech at the celebration of the 2023 Pambansang Buwan ng Pagbasa (National Reading Month) at the Esteban Abada Elementary School in Quezon City.

Duterte admitted the Program for International Student Assessment results are coming up, and she is not expecting good results for Filipino students.

“We don’t expect it, na maganda yung resulta sa darating na Disyembre,” said Duterte.

(We don’t expect the results to be good this December.)

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