00:00Teachers groups call out President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for the still unfulfilled promise of laptops.
00:06Instead, they received lapel microphones.
00:09Marcos promised the delivery of laptops to every public school teacher during his 2025 State of the Nation address.
00:15The Alliance of Concerned Teachers and the Teachers' Dignity Coalition say laptops remain their most needed gadget, not lapel mics
00:21or voice amplifiers.
00:23Days after Marcos' 2026 sauna, where he promised to provide helpful and innovative teaching aids, several schools posted on social
00:30media that they had received the lapel mics.
00:33The Department of Education clarifies the procurement processes for the two items are separate.
00:38But ACT reported that it received feedback from teachers that the lapel microphones were of poor quality with weak audio
00:43output.
00:44ACT adds some units have supposedly malfunctioned or stopped working after being used just once.
00:49The two teachers groups also hit the government for the insufficient number of laptops slated for distribution.
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