Five schools in Davao City were recommended to the Department of Education (DepEd) for the pilot implementation of face-to-face classes for the School Year 2021-2022.
Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio said the city government of Davao already sent a letter to DepEd recommending the five schools namely for national high schools with senior high school program: Dalagdag National High School in Brgy. Dalagdag, Calinan District; J. Tajo National High School in Brgy. Lampianao in Calinan District, and Saloy National High School sa Brgy. Saloy also in Calinan District.
For elementary schools with Kindergarten are Mabuhay Elem. School sa Brgy. Mabuhay in Paquibato District and Gumitan Elem. School in Brgy. Gumitan in Marilog District.
“Mao ni siya atong gisubmit sa Deped for pilot face-to-face for their approval if allowed. Mao ni siya atong napili based sa ranking sa risk assessment,” the mayor said.
The schools were selected based on the recommendation of the Davao City Covid-19 Task Force to allow one school each out of the 182 barangays in Davao City.
The mayor said the planned restart of face-to-face classes for select schools was discussed during the Covid-19 Task Force meeting after the regional office of the Department of Education (DepEd 11) reached out to the mayor requesting a list of pilot schools in Davao City for the face-to-face classes.
“The Department of Education reached out to my office with regards to the pilot face-to-face classes in public schools, so we were asked to submit a list of public schools where face-to-face classes will be rolled out. This was discussed in our Covid-19 TF meeting, the agreement is, out of the 182 barangays, they will be ranked according to risk assessment, and the last three barangays in terms of risk assessment will be selected for pilot face to face. Dili tanan schools didto sa ilang barangay ang mag-open, our initial submission is one school per barangay,” Mayor Sara said.
Meanwhile, Mayor Sara also bared that she sent a letter to DepEd ensuring that teaching or non-teaching personnel on the schools submitted for pilot face-to-face classes are vaccinated.
“Clear atong gisulat sa DepEd whether you are IP or non-IP, whether you are teaching, non-teaching personnel of the school which was submitted for pilot testing, if you are unvaccinated, we requested that you are not allowed to report to work,” she said.
