DepEd drops proposal of trimming down summer break to two weeks By JAMIL SANTOS, GMA News Published March 3, 2021 1:02pm The Department of Education on Wednesday said it is dropping its proposal to shorten the two-month student summer break to just two weeks. "[D]ahil ako ang dating natanong dito, and I was very clear that it was not yet a policy, nasabi ko rin kanina na hindi na yan kasama sa proposals namin kapag nag-usap tungkol sa summer break," DepEd undersecretary Diosdado San Antonio told GMA News Online. "I clarified that the previous news about a possible two-week summer break (attributed to me) will no longer be proposed by the Curriculum and Instruction strand," San Antonio meanwhile told reporters in a Viber message.