DepEd urges Grade 10 students to register for senior high school

The Department of Education (DepEd) 11 is calling on all Grade 10 students in all public and private junior high schools to register their names for senior high school so the department can assess their numbers.
In a press conference, DepEd 11 K to 12 focal person Janet Veloso said students should register on October 19 to 23 to give DepEd an idea on what adjustments it needs to implement for the K to 12 program next year.
“Our Grade 10 students should be registered early so that we will know how many students will go to private schools and to the DepEd schools,” she said.
Veloso said around 75,000 Grade 10 students in Region 11 need to be registered so that the DepEd will have a forecast on the next year’s implementation.
She said the students just need to go to the Grade 10 class advisers who have been ordered to register the students through DepEd Order No 41 or the use of preference slip.
“The preference slip indicates the school where the students will go,” he said.
Veloso said the students who will go to private schools will be provided P20,000 vouchers for their tuition.
For his part, DepEd 11 spokesperson Genelito Atillo said that the registration is not mandatory since it will depend on whether or not a student wants to continue to senior high school.
“Di man ni pinugsanay kay kung kinsay gusto mao ray ato kung dili dili pud nato mapugos (It is not mandatory. If there are students want to continue we will cater to them. If not we will not force it),” Atillo said. Armando B. Fenequito Jr.