THE FEDERATION of Associations of Private Schools Administrators said that private school students can advance their lessons and finish their e-modules ahead of time to avoid getting bored.

During the Department of Education’s stakeholders consultation on the Implementing Rules and Regulations of Republic Act 10665 or Open High School System Act on Wednesday, FAPSA President Eleazardo Kasilag and other officers asked DepEd Undersecretary Tonisito Umali if private schools students could be allowed to finish their modules ahead of time, since many students were reportedly doing it.

Umali let the DepEd Undersecretary for Instruction and Curriculum Diosdado San Antonio answer the question. San Antonio said he doesn’t see it as bad and told FAPSA that he’s okay with it.

Kasilag, together with Dr. Ray Adalem and Dr. Sining Kotah, the group’s vice president for program and vice president for administration, welcomed the positive response.

“The students get bored if the modules do not progress as fast as the students absorb the lessons. There are diligent students who wish to get advance sessions and since the entire e-book is at their disposal, some students have finished the second quarter lessons much faster by some months than during the regular school year. These students claim boredom, if they are told to review in order to wait for the scheduled regular discussions. During the pandemic and they could not go anywhere, the e-book has become the only source of positive time waster,” Kasilag said.

The virtual consultation on the RA 10665, intended as a 2-hour session, lasted an entire day. DepEd  officials and stakeholders spent the day deliberating and scrutinizing the 46 sections of the IRR draft.