Too many student , too few classrooms.

It is the most common problem in schools especially in

public schools. Overcrowded students and a lack of school rooms were the common problem
here specially in the Philippines. Education means considerably more than just teaching a
student to read, write, and manipulate numbers. But with lack of classrooms and other school
facilities, how can we accommodate the needs of the students when even in the first place
having a classroom cannot be provided by the schools? For this reason I tend to research about
the lack of classrooms and its cause and effects.

Overcrowded schools are a serious problem in many schools. One of these causes of having a
overcrowded schools is the lack of proper facilities specially the classrooms, where government
provided classroom literally. As a researcher, I found this matter to some professional
researchers that the relationship between lack of classroom and student learning has been
limited, there is some evidences researchers found particularly in high poverty schools, that
overcrowding can have an adverse impact on learning. Effectiveness requires minimum input .
With classroom shortages , the Philippines cannot expect a good outcome from its school
system.

This is one of the reasons why education also suffers in terms of efficiency. Hence, much of the
researchers which are already severly limited go to where these are least needed. The
emphasis on the students excellence sacrifices equity. Students who need most classrooms
that schools require more resources are simply neglected and
ignored. The effect of having room shortages for schools, some
classrooms are divided into two for they have the lack of classrooms that their schools should
have been provided. This uncertain cases was observed by some professionals that the
interaction between teacher and pupils was not an effective due. To a large number of pupils
per class and the lack of classroom. It was observed that pupils did not get enough individual
assistance from their teachers during teaching-learning process. Base on my research, some
student complained that they did not get enough individual help from their teachers that effects
them to lack as well the interest in their classes and also which leads them to abseenteism.

THE lack of classrooms is just one of the problems facing the Education
department ahead of the opening of classes on June 4, with the increasing
population of students in public elementary and high schools nationwide.

CEBU, Philippines - Inadequate classrooms in public schools still remain as the top
dilemma of the Department of Education, a high-ranking official admitted yesterday.

Education Secretary Leonor Briones said the shortage of classrooms has worsened
with the series of natural calamities that hit the country.

DepEd allocated P534 billion for the construction of around 47,000 classrooms
nationwide.
In a separate interview, DepEd-7 Director Dr. Julieta Jeruta said she cannot determine
yet the schools that lack classrooms since the surveys are still ongoing.

She said surveys are done at the school level to ascertain well the deficiencies and
prevent the manipulation of reports, adding that they would not want to rely solely on
the consolidated data from the school districts.