We has 722,000 teacher. We are the biggest sector.

We cannot say that one sector has drug problems while we

dont. We have to find out, she said in a mix of English and Filipino.reason The why some dont want to take
drug tests is because the teacher will have additional tests to pay for. We will construct a sampling model for
this. It was done before by Brother (Armin) Luistro, she added.

the DepEd is eye ing mandattory drug tests for teachers and students, with the con sent of their parents, in
all public schools nationwide, its chief say monday, september 26.

Secretary education leonor briones tell reporters this will be the departments contribution to the in tensified
campaign against illegal drugs under the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte.

say Briones that althuogh teachers are required to take drug tests at their expense before they are hired for
employment, the department wants to conduct it annually with the expense to be shouldered by the
government.

She assure that students will be givn the drgu tset only after thier parents consent to it.

department The will reeach a decision on the matterbefore theend of the year, she added.

briones said the department is also planning to incorporate illegal drug education in the curriculum for
schools and the alternative learning system.

In the curriculum, we want to include it and develop materials like film, drama, song instead of just
textbooks, she said.
if they are selling drugs, then thats a ground for administrative action. But if they are using drugs, you want
to rehabilitate or reform them. They have to go on-leave para mangyari yung rehabilitation program sa
kanila, he say.

the deprtment of Education (Deped) will be subjecting all teaching and non-teaching staff to mandatory drug
tests, while random drug testing will be undertaken for students in public schools.

This is disclosed by DepEd Assistant Secretary tomisito umali who told a press briefing here on Friday that
nationwide drugs testing for all 700,000 workers of the agency will be held late this year or early 2017.

said He that the teachers, who will test positive for drug-use, will be rehbilitated, while those foundselling
ilegal drugs will be subject to administrative actoin or suspnsion.

He said they will study what their approach will be in undertaking the random drug testing for the students.

Umali said that while it will not be possible to conduct tests on all the public school students in the country,
DepEd will study how to get a representative sample of a greater majority. Education Under secretary dina
S. Ocampo said that the agncy might selectonly a few students in the secondary schools for the random
drugtesting, and assured that thier identities will be protected.

She said that they were also devising some extra curricular activiteis under the antidrugs program.

The drug preventive education curiculum is already in place. We have to devise a way to be able to devise the
extracurricular faster There are inter agency teams, the asean Council for Preventive Drug Education,
called for a meeting to be able to help to create co-curricular activities that not only prepare them for exam or
quizzes. What we want is to create an advocacy, she said.
umali said that among the creative ways on how to best inte grate anti drugs into the schools
extracurricular activities was through the use of media such as video clips that show the ill-effects of illegal
drugs to the life of a person.