Lawmakers are against penalizing private schools for their “no permit, no exam” policy, but agreed on Monday, Sept. 19, that students should be allowed to take the exam despite the non-payment of tuition and other school fees.
Under House Bill No. 1160, or “An Act Penalizing the Imposition of a “No Permit, No Exam” Policy or Any Such Policy That Prohibits Students From Taking Their Periodic or Final Examinations Due to Unpaid Tuition and Other School Fees,” by Kabataan Party-list Rep. Raoul Manuel, schools will be penalized for barring students with unpaid tuition from taking their midterm or final examinations.
The proposed measure aims to penalize school officials and employees, including deans, coordinators, advisers, professors, instructors, and other concerned individuals for imposing the “no permit, no exam” policy. Although Baguio City Rep. Mark Go agreed that students should be allowed to take exams despite non-payment of tuition, he expressed dissent on the negativity of penalizing private schools.
“So, what we do we give the exam to students but hold on to their credentials, hold on to their grades until they are able to pay,” she told the committee. He also disagreed that teachers and deans should be penalized since they are only “following instructions from top above.”
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