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Question 10
10. The Secretary of the Department of Education (DepEd) issued Department Order
(DO) No. 35 providing guidelines for teaching good manners and right conduct
in all primary educational institutions. As part of the materials to be used during
the sessions, the handbook for instructors contains a chapter on “Values from
Religious Traditions and Indigenous Cultures”. The DepEd will provide the
handbooks, but educational institutions shall be free to adapt the contents of the
handbook in accordance with their respective mission and vision. Attendance at
the sessions shall be compulsory for all students. Concerned parents and teachers
questioned DO No. 35 before the Supreme Court as being violative of the
establishment clause and their primary right and duty to rear their children. Are
the parents and teachers correct? Explain briefly.
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