They know they have a big mess about to blow up and there isn’t anything they can do about it. It might have been better to give most of the public school students a year off. Back here, I doubt if there are even a handful of public elementary classrooms geared for this new pandemic-inspired way of teaching online. Sen. Ralph Recto cited one example: the mess regarding the need to print self-learning modules (SLM) for 21.5 million public school students, which Recto said “could be around 100 billion pages.”“My low-end estimate is about 93.6 billion pages. He explained that his count is based on 20 pages per subject a week, eight subjects for 34 weeks, to be used by 17.206 million public school students out of the 21.507 million enrolled.

Source: Philippine Star August 20, 2020 16:41 UTC