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Bella Cariaso - The Philippine Star
January 11, 2026 | 12:00am
Students leave the school in Manila on March 3, 2025, where classes are suspended due to extreme heat.
AFP / Jam Sta Rosa
MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Education has allocated at least P100 million to fund the program on bullying prevention, values formation and learner support.
DepEd Undersecretary Fatima Panontongan issued DepEd Memorandum No. 2 on Jan. 9 on the implementing guidelines of the Kaagapay Program aimed at empowering the school community to address bullying.
“The program supports parents, guardians and caregivers of public school learners in strengthening home-based learning and complementing classroom instruction, encouraging positive discipline and promoting safe, nurturing and inclusive learning environments,” Panontongan said.
The DepEd said the Kaagapay Program seeks to reinforce the learning, behavioral and socio-emotional objectives articulated in the K-12 Basic Education Curriculum, including homeroom guidance, Good Manners and Right Conduct and Values Education.
The program also aims to raise awareness and provide tools for preventing, identifying and addressing bullying and related concerns in partnership with schools and local child-protection mechanisms.
The DepEd said it upholds the principle that the holistic development of learners requires collective effort.
“It recognizes parents, guardians, caregivers and those entrusted with the responsibility for the upbringing of a child-learner as indispensable co-educators, whose daily interactions with children shape literacy, numeracy, values and attitudes toward learning long before and after formal instruction,” the DepEd said.
