This would mean paying tribute to their important contribution in educating the youth and to provide them with decent pay commensurate to the sacrifices they make in educating the country’s youth - the country's future citizens. Increase the salary of public school teachers through approving pending bills. 395), Senator Sonny Angara pointed out that the low salaries of the public school teachers have been “a major disincentive for them to improve their skills in teaching and pursue further education and training.” Moreover, this hinders the public schools to recruit top-performing students from various colleges and universities hence, keeping our public education system from taking advantage of their knowledge and expertise to serve as qualified teachers.
This is due to the fact that the salary offer is way more competitive than what they receive here, not to mention the benefits that await them abroad.ĭisincentive to further improve public education system In fact, they go abroad to work as domestic workers or other occupations that do not suit their educational attainment. Teachers choosing to work abroad - “brain drain problem”Īside from the undervalued role of the teachers, given the low salaries they receive, more and more of them opted on working abroad instead.
Low salaries given to teachers spawn different problems. Public school teachers are seen as just government employees, overlooking their important roles as second parents and formators of future of future citizens of a nation. With the low salaries received by the public school teachers in our country, this implies the lack of value given to this occupation and also the quality of the teachers being recruited for a teaching job. leaving them with an inadequate amount of salary given the high cost of living we have today. To add to this, there usual deductions made such as Government Service Insurance premiums, withholding taxes, PHILHEALTH contributions, etc. This is further decreased by deductions from different from their loans and private lending institutions.
It is a socioeconomic problem that affects not only the teachers but also the students and the nation as a whole.Īt present, the average salary given to public school teachers is around P18,549 under the third phase of the Salary Standardization Law.
Public school teachers are among the lowest paid professionals in the Philippines and lowest paid teachers throughout Asia.
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