The Department of Education in Mandaue City, Cebu, implements a four-tier heat assessment system to adjust school operations as temperatures rise. Schools monitor local conditions and apply different categories—Hayo, Hinay, Hinga, and Hinto—each linked to specific changes to schedules and learning activities, including hydration breaks, shortened lessons or rescheduling, suspension of in-person meetings with home-based learning, and at the highest level a total ban on school activities.
Edgar Espina, an administrative officer in the Mandaue DepEd, says the approach responds to the limits of one-size-fits-all rules, since local buildings and shading vary across campuses. PravdaReport emphasizes the shift of scheduling authority to campus directors and describes daily weather checks and additional oversight by the municipal disaster risk management office. Inquirer.net focuses on the 4H guidelines coming from a DepEd central-office memorandum and frames the move as protection measures amid the El Niño phenomenon, detailing the temperature ranges tied to each heat level.
