Can teachers give special treatment to students who participate in a non-mandatory activity which requires a hefty payment?

For context, our homeroom teacher informs us of a supposedly "mandatory" theatre play coming up soon. However, the Department of Education Regional Memorandum states that it is non-mandatory or "personal and voluntary." No other official documents that we (the students) know of, state a payment of some kind is required, and no explanation backed by official documents is provided by our teacher as to why the payment is needed. Our teacher also gave us an incentive that participating in this would be the basis for our exam grade, so taking the exam is no longer needed. One of my classmates raised a question as to what would happen for non-compliance, and the teacher said that the student would have to take the exam. Is this fair?

Submitted April 02, 2024 at 05:36AM by ChichayKyojin https://ift.tt/plfCv84