CEBU CITY, Philippines – In Danao City, Cebu, lawmakers want to introduce a law that would ban cutting of classes.
The proposal is titled ‘An Ordinance on Anti-Truancy’, with the local government defining truancy as the ‘intentional, unjustified, unauthorized or illegal absence from compulsory education.’ Most of the students who do ‘cutting classes’ often spend their time inside internet cafes, doing billiards, wandering inside malls, or joining in drinking sprees.A public hearing and consultation for the proposed ordinance are ongoing this week, the PIO added, wherein they introduced to stakeholders possible provisions for it.
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