NOT giving students and teachers an academic break after the recent calamities that hit the country is ‘inhumane,’ human rights advocates Gabriela said.

“It is inhumane to continue to subject the Filipino people to a hastily made education program while we reel from one crisis and calamity to another sans ample and timely state assistance,” Gabriela said on Facebook.

The group said that the two recent typhoons that pounded several regions made it harder for students to continue with the academic year.   Gabriela said students already suffered from ‘ineffective online and modular infrastructure’.

“Thousands are disenfranchised because of online distance learning and the inability to prepare for remote learning,” it said.

“Students, parents, and teachers have borne the brunt of numerous difficulties of the ineffective online and modular infrastructure resulting from the Duterte regime’s abandonment of a basic and vital social service — education,” the group added.

The group backed students’ call for an academic break and for  accountability from the criminally negligent Duterte regime’.

Earlier, Commission on Higher Education Chairman Prospero de Vera III rejected the call for a nationwide and Luzon-wide academic break.