SENATOR Sherwin Gatchalian called on the Department of Education to investigate reports that some parents have hired individuals to answer the learning modules of their children.

Gatchalian warned parents that by engaging in this practice, their children will not learn and their academic development would be compromised.

The report about the “sagot for sale” scheme came from the Teachers’ Dignity Coalition which bared that some struggling parents pay someone to answer their children’s modules.

“Huwag naman sanang gawin ng mga magulang iyon dahil kawawa ang mga bata. Hindi natin sila natutulungang matuto sa ganyang mga paraan,” Gatchalian said.

The senator said that the Basic Education Committee will have another hearing on the methodology of assessing learners’ performance.

The DepEd earlier claimed that 99.13 percent of more than 14 million public school learners passed the first quarter of School Year 2020-2921.

Gatchalian said that the scenario in Valenzuela City is different and more consistent with the low national achievement scores.

He added that there is a need for a better understanding of how learners are evaluated under the distance learning setup.

“I know this is challenging, but again we need to fully understand the assessment conducted by the DepEd. And we also want to see a per subject analysis because we all know that we need to help our students by looking at their weaknesses in different subject matters,” Gatchalian said.