‘Compliance culture’ in DepEd seen not helping PH education

In a country that supposedly allows democratic space, public schools ironically operate under what the Second Congressional Commission on Education (Edcom 2) describes as a “memocracy”—a rigid memorandum-compliance culture within the Department of Education (DepEd). As one teacher put it during a consultation: “Our school is more policy compliant. Kung anong binaba from DepEd, ’yun