THE ALLIANCE of Concerned Teachers reiterated its demand on the Department of Education to compensate teachers for up to three weeks of extended work for this school year.

He said that if the department has no money to pay teachers, the latter should be given service credit of 1.25 days for every day of  extended work.

Vladimer Quetua, the group’s chairperson, said that based on the school calendar, the last day of the school year was June 24, 2022.

“It should be the start of the 2 month school break because the new school year would start on August 22, 2022,” he said.

He said that DepEd should pay all teachers at least one week of extended work because they were required to report for work from June 27 to July 1.

“Ngayong school year lamang nangyari na inilabas sa school days ang graduation week kung saan June 24 ang last school day at June 27 to July 1 ang grad week na nagresulta ng 1 linggong extension sa trabaho ng lahat ng guro sa buong bansa,” he said.

“Mas malala pa, napakaraming mga siyudad at probinsya ang nag-extend pa ng karagdagang 1 o 2 linggo ng pagpapatrabaho sa mga guro. Sa Region IV-A, Region VII ay class days pa ang June 27-July 2 at ang graduation week ay July 4-8. Mas malala sa Region III at Region XI na July 11-15 pa ang graduation week kung kaya tatlong linggo nang nag-o-overtime ang mga guro,” Quetua added.