4-day school week rapped

MANILA, Philippines—An official of the biggest organization of Catholic schools in the country on Saturday said the suggestion to hold classes only four days a week was a “creative” but “short-sighted response” to the perennial traffic problem in Metro Manila.

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“It’s a laudable action on the part of the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) to look for creative solutions to the pressing concerns of daily traffic.

However, the creative solution may be a short-sighted response to the problem that requires a structural and long-range solution,” Anthony Coloma, information and advocacy officer of the Catholic Educational Association of the Philippines (CEAP), said when sought his reaction to the proposal to shorten class schedules.

MMDA Chair Francis Tolentino had raised the idea of a four-day school week to the Department of Education as he projected how bad the traffic would be on Edsa once the infrastructure projects of the government begin.

 
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