Home⇛iCONNECT Multidisciplinary Research Journal⇛vol. 2 no. 2 (2025)

Assessment Of Private Schools Operations During The Community Quarantine: Basis For A Learning Recovery Plan

Jocelyn Baniago | Jay R San Pedro | Cecilia Sy

Discipline: Education

 

Abstract:

The abrupt switch of schools operation has been aggravating among school leaders, educators, parents, and students, especially during the initial phase of the community quarantine. Innovating school operations through offering various alternative learning modalities and support were provided to mitigate the impact of the community quarantine to the student’s learning progress. As school operations are migrating to the new norm of offering educational services, a learning recovery plan should be reconsidered by academic leaders and educators. With this, an assessment of the private schools operations was carried out to identify the different facets of a learning recovery plan that can be endorsed for implementation within the research locale through a descriptive research design. Thus, the academic leaders and educators from private schools in one of the school divisions in the National Capital Region, Philippines were considered in this study. It revealed that the private schools operations were severely affected in regard to enrollment, drop-out and retention rate, number of teaching and non-teaching personnel, and auxiliary/ancillary services. These findings were used as a basis for a learning recovery plan to address the severity of challenges encountered in terms of enrolment, finances, human resource management, school facilities and equipment, stakeholders’ engagement, and student’s academic performance.



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