Education Secretary Sonny Angara FILE PHOTO
MANILA, Philippines 鈥� The Department of Education (DepEd) tapped the Second Congressional Commission on Education (Edcom II) to help amend the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of the Anti-Bullying Act of 2013.
In a statement on Friday, the DepEd said they expect the revised IRR to be fully implemented before the start of the next school year.
鈥淲e need to be more thorough and diligent in monitoring bullying incidents,鈥� Education Secretary Sonny Angara said partly in Filipino.
鈥淚t has been more than a decade since we led the development of this legislation in the Senate. Now that we are in DepEd, I have seen that not all schools have an anti-bullying policy,鈥� Angara added in a mix of Filipino and English.
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Edcom II recently pushed to amend the IRR of the Anti-Bullying Act, citing data from the 2022 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) that 53 percent of boys and 43 percent of girls in the Philippines are victims of bullying at least a few times a month.
During their meeting, DepEd and Edcom II agreed on key points and proposed revisions to the IRR of the anti-bullying law, also committing to working together on school-level implementations and future high-level consultations.
With reports from Sheba Maya R. Barr, 黑料社 trainee