(Editor’s note: After press time, the national government announced the moving of the opening of classes to October 5.)
MANKAYAYAN, Benguet – The municipal government expressed its readiness to face the challenges of the upcoming opening of classes by August 24 with the implementation of blended learning for the new normal.
Mayor Frenzel A. Ayong said the municipal government is ready with its commitment to the town’s education sector in time for the opening of classes following the disruption of classes for schoolyear 2019-2020 due to the heavy impact of the implementation of the community quarantine measures that created so many problems for the preparations for schoolyear 2020-2021.
“We just have to make sure we are ready for the upcoming opening of classes in less than two weeks. We will just make the appropriate adjustments if challenges arise,” Mayor Ayong stressed.
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The municipal chief executive added that matters concerning the health and safety of the teachers will be discussed in the upcoming meeting of the municipal school board, like their exposure to the elements when distributing and collecting learning materials in the houses of their students in the town’s barangays.
According to him, teachers and barangay officials will surely be exposed to the elements and to the possibility of contracting the dreaded Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) when distributing and collecting the learning materials from the houses of their students and pupils that is why appropriate safety measures must be put in place by the municipal government and concerned government agencies to address the said situation.
Ayong admitted the municipal government had recent problems in the procurement of the heavy photo copiers as this will take more than one and a half month before purchase will be delivered as there is enormous demand for the said machines which is used for reproducing the student learning modules that will be distributed to the enrollees when classes will start.
He claimed the municipal government will have to hold in abeyance the earlier proposed fabrication of wash stations for the different public schools in the municipality because there limited face-to-face learning as this will resume only in January when these will be required, thus, the priority of the municipal government is the immediate need for printed modules for the enrollees once classes resume by the third week of this month.
He added the municipal government is continuously conducting consultations with the relevant sectors of the municipality for their inputs on what to improve in the new learning modalities which could be done through the assistance of available resources.
By Hent
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