Wary of the potential danger the planned transport strike next week may pose to commuting students, several Metro Manila schools, mostly private, have announced a temporary weeklong shift back to online classes. The Department of Education (DepEd), however, is taking a big gamble that the weeklong jeepney strike would fizzle out and declared that there will be no suspension of classes in public schools even during the strike. 'On the part of DepEd, there will be no suspension of classes,' Michael Poa, spokesperson for the DepEd, said in a statement on Friday.

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