TAIPING: The shift to home-based teaching and learning (PdPR) amid the ongoing hot spell will not compromise education delivery, with authorities stressing that students’ health remains the top priority.
Deputy Education Minister Wong Kah Woh said the well-established PdPR system – refined since the Covid-19 pandemic – continues to ensure learning continuity, while allowing schools to respond flexibly to extreme weather conditions without putting students at risk.
“Of course, PdPR learning is not new to us; it has been around since the Covid-19 era.
“Last year, there was also a storm disaster in Selangor, and several schools held PdPR for more than a month.
“PdPR is not a problem, but what is important when we want to address this issue is to ensure that the health and welfare of our children is given priority,” he said when met at the Taiping Municipal Council oath-taking ceremony press conference here yesterday.
Wong stressed that every implementation of PdPR would be ensured to run effectively and efficiently, and also informed that schools are always ready to implement either PdPR or face-to-face teaching and learning in the classroom according to the school’s needs.
Meanwhile, he said that so far, the Education Ministry has not received any reports of heatstroke cases involving students in schools, Bernama reported.
Last Saturday, the Kedah State Education Department announced the implementation of PdPR for three days, starting Sunday until today.
The PdPR implementation involved 206 schools in Kota Setar and Pendang after both districts recorded daily heatwave temperature readings at Level 2 for three consecutive days.
