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8 Things You Should Know about the Proposed ‘No Homework’ Bill

  • Posted on Sep 6, 2019 Sep 5, 2019
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Sep 6, 2019   •   Joshua Daniel Bautista

The past week saw a motion in Congress proposing a ‘No Homework’ bill. Naturally, social media took no time at all to take sides and comment on the issue. Let’s take a look at some of the facts surrounding the motion and find out what it’s really about.

House Bill No.3611

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It was the House of Representatives’ Deputy Speaker Evelina Escudero who first brought this bill to the floor. She said that “Homework assignments can deprive students and parents precious quality time for rest, relaxation and interaction after school hours and even on weekends,”. She proposed that schools eliminate homework and refrain from weekend school activities.

And…House Bill. 3883

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There is a similar proposal under Quezon City Representative Alfred Vargas. He stated that no homework should be given, but during weekends only. The congressman also stated that the bill will promote “physical, moral, spiritual, intellectual and social well-being.”

A Case Study from South Africa

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Hon. Alfred Vargas also presented a study from a public school in West Cape, South Africa where a similar policy is in place. And that the bill is a solution to possible burdens brought by loads of homework to children and even parents.

Sen. Grace Poe also has a similar motion in the Senate

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Senate Bill 966 is the proposed ‘No Homework Law’ proposed by Sen. Grace Poe. Citing a study from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Program for International Student Assessment, she stated that extra time spent on homework can be more harmful than it is beneficial for students.

The Department of Education is in support of the bills.

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In an interview, DepEd Secretary Leonor Briones expressed that “We want all formal studying, assignment, project, whatever, to be done inside the school”. It appears that the lawmakers can be assured that the government agency is behind them all the way.

Teachers ACT against it

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Joselyn Martinez is the Chairperson of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT). She said that “we are not issuing homework to burden our students. It is demanded of us by the K to 12 program, so much [so] that our performance evaluation system ensures its implementation,”, Even the Teachers Dignity Coalition expressed similar views saying that “Our teachers are trained educators. We know the value of homework. It’s about discipline, responsibility, and continuity of learning.”

Technical Error

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Outrage sparked after netizens saw that the proposed bill under Rep. Vargas cited a penalty and a fine for teachers who would violate the said law. Teachers were furious. He then again went to state that there was a ‘technical error’ when it came to printing the bill and that the sanctions were not supposed to be there to begin with.

No Homework,No Restroom,No Amazon

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The ‘No Homework’ Bill is just one of the few things circling around in social media these days. The proposed SOGIE Bill and the ongoing crisis in South America with the burning rainforests are also among the headlines as you scroll down your feed these past few weeks.

Do you agree with this bill? Did you like homework back when you were in school? Share your thoughts with us and join in on the discussion.

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THE SUSPENSION OF HOMEWORK IN THE PHILIPPINES

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To the 29 000+ Filipino readers/viewers over the past 3 months, Maraming Salamat po!

INTRODUCTION

Homework or homework assignment has been an inevitable part of a pupils’ academic journey. An academic task that includes a period of reading, writing that has to be completed, textbook exercises to answer, Mathematics problems to be solved, some information to review for the previous or next lesson, and some activities to practice skills.

The primary purpose of giving a homework is to reinforce and increase pupils’ knowledge and improve their learning abilities. This will encourage pupils to engage in active learning. This also promotes a pupil-parent communication and collaboration between pupils.

 But many schools are rethinking homework, some have cut down on the amount they give each week, and others no longer allow weekend assignments. Some have eliminated homework entirely.

Filipino pupils

Source : OECD (2014)

THE PHILIPPINES’ Suspension of Homework

In September 2010, a memorandum from the Department of education was circulated (and passed on to all the bureau directors, regional directors, school division/city superintendents and Heads of Public elementary school). The   Deped Memorandum No.392 S.2010 highlights the suspension of homework during the weekend. This is to address the concern of parents regarding the amount of time the pupils consume in accomplishing their homework, instead of having an enjoyable and quality time with their family. This memorandum also intends to ease the pupils’ burden about the thought of doing plenty of homework.

In August 2019, the 118 th Congress – Senate Bill No. 966 (authored by Senator Grace Poe) or the proposed “No Homework Law” has been filed. This is a senate bill banning teachers from giving homework to students from kinder to Grade 12 on weekends.

The bill stated that all primary and secondary schools in the country shall not allow teachers to give any network or assignments to students. Under the proposed measure, teachers may only assign homework to students on weekends provided that it be minimal and will not require more than four hours to be completed.  The policy will be applied on both public and private schools.

“Further, it looked at homework hours around the world and found that there wasn’t much of a connection between how much homework students of a particular country do and how well their students score on tests” , the bill read.

Citing a 2014 study from the OECD based on PISA data, the senator noted that additional time spent on homework has a negligible impact on the performance of students after around four hours of homework in a week.  In OECD countries, for example, advantaged students spend 5.7 hours per week doing homework, on average, while disadvantaged students spend an average of 4.1 hours per week.

No homework policy

The Department of Education (DepEd) expressed its support on this filed bill of “No homework policy” saying that it would help learners find balance between personal and academic growth. Since they had been advocating for an all-inclusive learning regime for Filipino students, to include out of the classroom schooling, a policy that will, in effect, restrict teachers from giving homework to students from kindergarten to Grade 12. In hopes that the concept will enable Filipino learners “to find balance between their academic development and personal growth by having ample time for enjoyable activities with family.”

Up to this date, the proposed bill is not yet approved. Apparently, there is need to be circumspect and judicious. The DepEd memorandum of 2010 is still the ruling guideline on giving homework to pupils.

A pupil doing his homework after school.

Summary of pros and cons of homework

Let’s look into the summary of homework’s pros and cons:

Source : Joreen Domingo-Varly

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The SEAMEO Secretariat Director, Dr Ethel Agnes Pascua-Valenzuela, and the Secretary of Education, Philippines, H E Dr Leonor Magtolis Briones, signed the Memorandum of Understanding to spearhead the implementation of activities under the Southeast Asia Primary Learning Metrics (SEA-PLM) 5-Year Strategic Plan, including the SEA-PLM 2024 Survey. The MoU signing ceremony took place in the Office of the Secretary Building at the Department of Education in Manila on Monday, 02 May 2022.

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Félicitations à Joreen d’évoquer un problème en émergence dans les pays africains. Au Cameroun où je passe la majorité de mes observations, le problème de” saturation des activités intellectuelle” gagne du terrain, encouragé par cette frénésie de faire avancer les enfants sans respecter le rythme bio-physiologique des enfants. Tenez par exemple, les congés c’est à partir du 10 juin au primaire. Immédiatement, les “saturalistes” ont déjà programmé des cours de rattrapage pour le mois de juillet. Quand est-ce que le cerveau de ces enfants va se reposer? Commençons à mener des réflexions dans ce sens. Châpeau Joreen/

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Thanks! Actually I’ve been looking if it has been approved or not yet, then I saw you blog. I know the Finnish almost 100% do not give homework. As a math teacher, in my class, I started not giving them homework (years before the pandemic) even though the bill has not been passed yet.

Pierre Varly

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Topic for debate.

  • Choose an issue relevant to your students and to the curriculum, such as the amount of homework students are required to do. If you'd like to see the kinds of issues the Parliament has been discussing recently, have a look at Hansard or current media. If you're stuck for ideas, use one of our scripts in the toolkit.
  • With students, develop a plan to address the issue, for example, to ban homework. This plan will be your bill.
  • Write the name of the bill and its purpose on page one of the law-making script template, available in the toolkit. For example, 'The No Homework Bill: A Bill for an Act to ban homework in all Australian schools.'
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From the opposition, select:

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You may want to give your students time to write speeches:

  • Government members will support the bill
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If you plan on using the same bill to debate in the House of Representatives and the Senate, you may choose to allow some students to make speeches in the House of Representatives and some in the Senate.

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Is homework necessary? Senate bill seeks to ban homework on weekends 

  • PUBLISHED ON February 16, 2023

HOMEWORK no more?

A bill seeking to establish a no-homework policy for all elementary and junior high schools in the country is now before the Senate.

Under Senate Bill No. 1792 filed by Sen. Ramon Revilla Jr., assigning homework during weekends will be prohibited. 

But if ever students will be tasked to do schoolwork on weekends, this will only be on a voluntary basis. 

According to the bill, homework should only be assigned on weekdays, provided that it shall be “minimal and will not require more than two hours to be completed.”

Too much homework won’t help

Revilla, in his explanatory note, said a 2009 study conducted by The Organization For Economic Cooperation and Development’s Program for International Student Assessment (OECD-PISA) showed that additional time in doing homework has a negligible impact on students’ performance.

The study also found out that there is a connection between more homework and the students’ increased level of anxiety, which leads to low motivation in school work. 

“The productivity and attitude of kids towards education is lowered, which in turn leads to more dropout rates and lesser grades. Relatedly, less homework creates more parent-child time that allows the child to engage in more co-curricular activities,” he said. 

Instead of spending more time completing their homework, children should instead have enough time to rest and relax their mind, which will then increases their capacity to comprehend.

“In view of ensuring the welfare of the learners in this post pandemic era, the immediate approval of this bill is most earnestly sought,” he added. 

The bill also aims to expand the circular issued by the Department of Education (DepEd) in 2010 ,which served as the guideline in assigning homeworks public elementary schools pupils.

The DepEd’s memorandum states that giving of assignments shall be limited to reasonable quantities, and that no homework shall be given during weekends so that pupils will have enough time to rest and to spend quality time with their parents.

In 2019, the DepEd also signified its support for a similar bill filed before the House of Representatives. 

“By ensuring that they complete all assignments and projects in school, the no-homework policy enables our learners to find balance between their academic development and personal growth by having ample time for enjoyable activities with family,” the DepEd said in its 2019 statement. 

Meanwhile, the Alliance of Concerned Teachers, also in a statement in 2019, said that more than the homework issue, Congress should do a comprehensive assessment and review of the K to 12 program.

“[H]omework has become an inevitable part of teachers’ and students’ work due to the ‘unrealistic’ K12 curriculum,” ACT said. 

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Sen. Poe’s Version of “No-Homework Law” Based on Findings

Senator Grace Poe filed her version of No-Homework Law thru Senate Bill No. 966 -An Act Establishing A No-Homework Policy for All Primary and Secondary Schools in the Country. It was read on First Reading and Referred to the Committee on Basic Education, Arts and Culture last August 28, 2019. Legislative status: Pending in the Committee (8/28/2019).

According to her:

Not only that more homework does not translate to better student performance, It also gives additional stress to students, teachers and parents. More homework gives additional workload to our already overworked teachers and takes away valuable time that could have been spent with family and other activities. Hence, this bill aims to limit the homework given to students from Kinder to Grade 12 during weekdays and prohibit the same on weekends to safeguard and promote the welfare of teachers and school children, protect them from conditions that may adversely affect their health and their right to a balanced life, and uphold equality among students across different socio-economic backgrounds. This bill, when enacted into law, will institutionalize and expand the Department of Education (DepEd) Memorandum Circular No. 392, s. 2010 which advised teachers to limit the giving of homework to public elementary school pupils on weekdays and to refrain from giving homework on weekends.

EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE REPUBUC OF THE PHILIPPINES First Regular Session

SENATE S. No. 966

Introduced by Senator Grace Poe

AN ACT ESTABLISHING A NO-HOMEWORK POLICY FOR ALL PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN THE COUNTRY

Explanatory Note

According to Francesca Borgonovi, one of the authors of the study titled, “Does Homework Perpetuate the Inequities in Education?”, there is an advantage for putting extra hours in homework. She noted that when you look within countries at students who are learning in the same educational system and do more homework, those students do much better in school.1 However, data shows that there are diminishing marginal returns to homework after several hours of it.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Program for International Student Assessment (OECD PISA) found in 2009 that after around four hours of homework per week, the additional time invested in homework has a negligible impact on students’ performance. Further, it looked at homework hours around the world and found that there wasn’t much of a connection between how much homework students of a particular country do and how well their students score on tests. The best example of this is Finland. Finnish students do only about three (3) hours of homework per week yet in 2012 they scored sixth highest in the world in reading and 12thhighest in Math on the OECD’ international test, PISA.Finland is also known to rank high in the international rankings for education systems.

Not only that more homework does not translate to better student performance, It also gives additional stress to students, teachers and parents. More homework gives additional workload to our already overworked teachers and takes away valuable time that could have been spent with family and other activities.

Later on, OECD also found out that whatever benefit homework has Is relevant only for measuring student achievement within each country, and that It tends to reinforce the achievement gap between the rich and the poor.5 Specifically, in all 38 countries included in the OECD study, they discovered that homework hours vary by socio-economic status. According to the study, it is not Just poor kids are more likely to skip their homework or do not have a quiet place at home to complete it, schools serving the poor kids also do not assign as much homework as the schools for the rich. Often, poor students also have limited access to resources necessary to complete their homework.

Hence, this bill aims to limit the homework given to students from Kinder to Grade 12 during weekdays and prohibit the same on weekends to safeguard and promote the welfare of teachers and school children, protect them from conditions that may adversely affect their health and their right to a balanced life, and uphold equality among students across different socio-economic backgrounds.

This bill, when enacted into law, will institutionalize and expand the Department of Education (DepEd) Memorandum Circular No. 392, s. 2010 which advised teachers to limit the giving of homework to public elementary school pupils on weekdays and to refrain from giving homework on weekends.

In view of the foregoing, the Immediate passage of this measure is earnestly sought.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:

SECTION 1. Short Title. – This Act shall be known as the “No Homework Law”.

Sec. 2. Declaration of Policy. – It is hereby declared the policy of the State to safeguard and promote the welfare of teachers and school children, protect them from conditions that may adversely affect their health and their right to a balanced life, and uphold equality among students across different socio-economic backgrounds.

Sec. 3. Scope. – This Act shall apply to both public and private primary and secondary schools.

Sec. 4. No Homework on Weekends. – All primary and secondary schools in the country shall not allow teachers to give any homework or assignments to students from Kinder to Grade 12 on weekends. Assigning homework to students will only be allowed on weekdays; Provided, that such homework shall be minimal and will not require more than four (4) hours to be completed.

Sec. 5. Implementing Rules and Regulations. – Within ninety (90) days from the date of effectivity of this Act, the Department of Education (DepEd) shall formulate the rules and regulations to effectively implement the provisions of this Act.

Sec 6. Separability Clause. – If any portion or provision of this Act Is declared unconstitutional, the remainder of this Act or any provisions not affected thereby shall remain in force and effect

Sec. 7. Repealing Clause. – Any law, presidential decree or issuance, executive order, letter of instruction, rule or regulation Inconsistent with the provisions of this Act is hereby repealed or modified accordingly.

Sec 8. Effectivity. – This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days following Its complete publication In a newspaper of general circulation.

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  • How the PEO industry benefits:  Section 7 provides the PEO employer status with a right of direction and control over covered employees. It clearly defines the professional employer agreement as the governing document for the PEO/client relationship. If duties and liabilities are not allocated to the PEO by the contract or Bill then they remain with the client. It protects the PEO from liability beyond its control, including product, errors and omissions, and workers' liability for the client's product. It also limits new employee liability and assures the state that a PEO is not in the business of selling insurance.

Section 8: Benefit Plans

What the bill says:  This section states that both the client and PEO are the employer for retirement and welfare benefit plans. It also clarifies that a welfare benefit plan offered to the covered employees of a single, fully insured PEO is not a MEWA, and is exempt from state MEWA licensing requirements. It provides a statutory basis, under small group health law, for a PEO to be considered the employer of all its covered employees of one or more client companies. It also allows a PEO to be self-insured, as long as certain requirements are met.

  • How the PEO industry benefits:  Section 8 establishes a state law basis for the PEO to offer retirement and welfare benefit plans, and it allows a PEO plan to be treated as a single-employer plan under state law so that the PEO is not subject to onerous state MEWA laws.

Section 9: Workers' Compensation

What the bill says:  This section states that the responsibility to obtain workers' compensation coverage will be specifically allocated to either the client or the PEO, and both will have the protection of exclusive remedy.

  • How the PEO industry benefits:  Section 9 allows a choice as to which entity maintains workers' compensation coverage. It assures that both the PEO and its clients are protected under the exclusive remedy provisions.

Section 10: Unemployment Compensation Insurance

What the bill says:  All covered employees are considered employees of the PEO for purposes of unemployment compensation insurance. Upon termination of the professional employer agreement, the client is treated as a new employer without previous experience, unless that client is otherwise eligible for an experience rating.

  • How the PEO industry benefits:  This section allows the PEO to report and pay for unemployment compensation insurance using its state employer account number and contribution rate. It also provides that if a client cancels with a PEO, it will be treated as a new employer without a previous experience record unless otherwise eligible for an experience rating.

Section 11 Enforcement

  • What the bill says:  It prohibits non-registered PEOs from unfairly competing or distorting the marketplace. It allows the regulatory agency the enforcement authority to take quick action against illegal, unauthorized, or fraudulent PEO operations.
  • How the PEO industry benefits:  This protects legitimate PEOs by allowing "bad actors" to be disciplined or removed from the market. In the past, action by regulators was after the fact and after the damage was done. This provision allows the regulator to take prompt corrective action to preserve a fair and open market for PEO services.

Sections 12 & 13: Severability and Effective Date

What the bill says:  These routine sections preserve the remainder of the Bill if any section is found invalid due to state law and provides a date when the act will become effective.

  • How the PEO industry benefits:  These sections do not allow state law to invalidate the entire act because of one section.

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Employers are responsible for withholding and paying over employment taxes and filing required returns. Whether an entity is an employer is generally determined under the common law rules. An employer determined under the common law rules is referred to as the Common Law Employer (CLE). Many CLEs outsource some or all of their payroll and related tax duties to a third party payer.

A Professional Employer Organization (PEO) is a type of third party payer. If the CLE is outsourcing payroll, the CLE generally remains responsible for paying taxes and filing returns. However, there are provisions in the IRC that provide for limited situations where the CLE’s employment tax obligations may be shared by or shifted to the PEO.

IRC section 3401(d)(1) defines the term “employer” as the person for whom an individual performs or performed any service as the employee of such person (the CLE), except that if the person for whom the individual performs or performed the services does not have control of the payment of the wages for such services, the term “employer” means the person having control of the payment of such wages. A person who is not the CLE but is considered the employer because it has exclusive control of the payment of wages is sometimes referred to as the “statutory employer.”

If a third party, such as a PEO, is a statutory employer, it will be the person responsible for the employment taxes on the wage payments that it had exclusive control of. Significantly, if the third party is merely a conduit for the funds used to pay wages, it is not a Section 3401(d)(1) employer. It is important to remember that the Section 3401(d)(1) employer is only liable for employment taxes on wage payments over which it had control.

A PEO is sometimes referred to as an employee leasing organization. The contract between the PEO and the employer will provide that the PEO will perform some or all of the employment tax withholding, reporting and payment activities related to workers performing services for the employer. In some cases, the employer who contracts with a PEO purports to fire its employees, who are allegedly then hired by the PEO and leased back to the CLE (the PEO’s client). The PEO pays the employees as well as the employment tax liabilities with funds received from the client and files employment tax returns using its (the PEO’s) EIN. Typically, the client remains the CLE and the PEO is not the Section 3401(d)(1) employer because it does not control the payment of wages.

In many cases, the PEO claims to share control over the employees as a “co-employer”.

The Code does not define the term “co-employer” and the concept is not recognized under federal tax law. However, Treas. Reg. 31.3504-2 states that a person that pays wages or compensation to the individuals performing services for any client pursuant to a service agreement is designated to perform the acts required of an employer with respect to the wages or compensation paid. To be designated as a payer under this section, the PEO must assert it is the employer (or “co-employer”) of the individuals performing services for the client. The PEO may implicitly assert it is the employer or co-employer of the individuals performing services for the client by agreeing to:

  • Recruit and hire employees for the client or assign employees as permanent or temporary members of the client’s work force, or participate with the client in these actions;
  • Hire the client’s employees as its own and then lease them back to the client to perform services for the client; or
  • File employment tax returns using its own EIN that include wages or compensation paid to the individuals performing services for the client.

The Regulation further states that if a payer is designated to perform the acts required of an employer then the payer must perform the acts required under each applicable chapter of the Code and the relevant regulations with respect to wages or compensation paid by such payer. All provisions of law (including penalties) applicable to the employer are applicable to the payer and each employer for whom the payer is designated remains subject to all provisions of law (including penalties) and of the regulations applicable to an employer.

The Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014 required the IRS to establish a voluntary certification program for PEOs in two new Code sections. Section 3511 provides that a Certified Professional Employer Organization (CPEO) shall be treated as the employer (and no other entity shall be treated as the employer) of any work site employee performing services for any client of such organization, but only with respect to remuneration remitted by such organization to such work site employee. Section 7705 created a certification process and defines the term “Certified Professional Employer Organization” as an entity which applies to be treated as a CPEO for purposes of Section 3511 and has been certified by the Secretary as meeting the requirements of certification. The IRS began accepting applications for PEO certification in July 2016. The IRS is required to publish a list of CPEOs as well as de-certified CPEOs. As of February 2017, the IRS has yet to publish such list. See CPEO Public Listings on IRS.gov.

Even after the creation of the certification process, there may be many organizations which function as PEOs but do not become certified.

Issue Indicators or Audit Tips

Issue indicators.

  • Salaries and wages reported but no employment tax returns filed by the CLE
  • Contracts that indicate the CLE is outsourcing one or more payroll and related tax duties to a third party
  • Payroll funds being transferred from the CLE to a third party.
  • Wages are not paid from the CLE’s bank account(s).

Examiners will need to conduct an investigation to determine the employment relationships between the employees and each separate entity. Evidence can be obtained from contracts, meeting minutes, interviews, personnel and payroll records, employee benefit plan sponsors, or state unemployment records.

IRM Section 4.23.5.13.3 provides auditing standards related to the use of a PEO. IRM 4.23.5.13.4 provides auditing standards related to the use of a CPEO.

Agents should inform any CLE using a PEO that, generally, the CLE is not relieved of its employment tax obligation with regard to wages paid to its employees by using a PEO. In addition, the Agent should advise the CLE to use due diligence in the selection and continuing use of the services of a PEO. In some cases, the CLE may have all the records and returns necessary to conduct an employment tax exam using routine procedures. However, a PEO may file an aggregate Form 941 using the PEO’s EIN. Agents examining a CLE which is using a PEO must contact the analyst in Specialty Exam Policy and Quality, Employment Tax for current procedures addressing PEO issues relating to third parties (including PEOs) that are subject to Treas. Reg. 31.3504-2; Designation of Payor to Perform Certain Acts of an Employer. The name and EIN of the client CLE, tax periods under examination and the name and EIN of the PEO must be provided to the analyst.

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DepEd issues statement on the no-homework policy bills

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The Department of Education recently issued a statement to clarify some points about the bill seeking to ban the practice of giving students home works.

This is in response to several issues being thrown to the proposed measure.

With the issuance of the DepEd Memorandum No. 392, series 2010, also known as “Guidelines on Giving Homework or Assignment to All Public Elementary School Pupils,” the said government agency reiterates its commitment to the holistic development of learners inside and outside the classroom.

In a statement, DepEd emphasized that the said issuance aims to enable learners to have more quality time with their parents, family, and friends by limiting the homework/assignment to a reasonable quantity on school days and by eliminating the same during weekends.

The education department supports the no-homework policy proposed by legislators from the House of Representatives. By ensuring that they complete all assignments and projects in school, the no-homework policy enables our learners to find balance between their academic development and personal growth by having ample time for enjoyable activities with family.

DepEd will further study the other provisions of the bills to determine the repercussions on the current teaching and learning process.

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No-homework bills filed

MANILA, Philippines — Schoolchildren need not burn the midnight oil for class assignments, according to two bills at the House of Representatives that propose a no-homework policy from kindergarten to high school.

No more homework means more quality time at home, said the lawmakers who sponsored the separate measures.

Through House Bill No. 3611, Deputy Speaker Evelina Escudero seeks to eliminate homework as a class requirement and limit school activities to the campus.

“Homework assignments can deprive students and parents precious quality time for rest, relaxation and interaction after school hours and even on weekends,” the Sorsogon representative said in an explanatory note.

Her bill would also have students deposit textbooks in school after hours to save them from carrying heavy learning materials on and off campus.

Weekend ban only

Quezon City Rep. Alfred Vargas has a similar proposal, HB 3883, but his measure would only stop teachers from assigning homework for the weekend.

He cited a study in South Africa in 2018 suggesting that homework imposes a burden on both children and parents, leading to declining family time and less interest to learn.

“In addition, a few landmark studies have suggested that homework does impact upon family life, in some cases in a negative way… yet in general, it is positively associated with academic achievement,” Vargas said.

He said his bill would promote schoolchildren’s “physical, moral, spiritual, intellectual and social well-being.”

Vargas’ bill, unlike Escudero’s, would impose a fine of P50,000 or imprisonment of one to two years on teachers who would violate the no-homework condition.

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