First grade teacher Rose Ann Candelaria uses a laptop computer to conduct an online class from her classroom at the F. Mendoza Memorial Elementary School in Calumpit town, Bulacan on Wednesday. National education authorities and local government units are laying out contingency measures against high-temperature weather forecasts that could affect the health of educators and students. Schools are beginning to either cancel or shorten in-person classes and have revived home-based online and modular learning sessions, reminiscent of times four years ago when COVID-19 forced the whole country to rely on alternative education formats.

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