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Check this out. Education Secretary Jesli Lapus, alarmed by the overcrowding in some public elementary schools has ordered classes in those schools reduced to four or five hours. “All schools that claim to lack classrooms shall implement this order,” he said. Lapus said class length for the various grades in the affected schools shall be as follows: For grades 1 and 2, four hours of learning time; grade 3, four and a half hours; and grades 4, 5 and 6, five hours. “To compensate for the reduced number of hours per day, Edukasyong Pantao will be integrated into all learning areas from grades 1 to 6, (while) Sibika at Kultura will be integrated into Filipino from grades 1 to 3,” he said. “Musika, Sining at Edukasyong Pagpapalakas ng Katawan will be integrated into Heograpiya, Kasaysayan at Sibika (Hekasi) in grades 4 to 6,” he said. The order included a sample classroom program, which suggested that English be taught for 90 minutes in grades 1 to 3, and for 60 minutes for grades 4 to 6. ...