00:00The Department of Education, or DEPED, assured the time prescribed for teaching hours will not go beyond that which is recommended under the Matatag curriculum.
00:09This, as the Teachers' Dignity Coalition, or TDC, appealed the supposed eight hours per day duty of educators under the agency's Order No. 5 from then-DEPED chief and vice president, Sara Duterte, be changed.
00:23It has also conducted consultations as early as last year to May of this year, and has already held early orientations for schools for the pilot implementation of the said curriculum.
00:53We need to be very strict about that so that our teachers won't get tired.
