By Dominic B. dela Cruz
Staff reporter
Batac
City—The Department of Education (DepEd)
Regional Office temporarily approved the double shifting of classes of the City
of Batac National High School (CBNHS) Poblacion Campus.
The first shift will be from
6 am to 12 noon, while the second shift starts at 12 noon until 6 pm.
Batac schools division superintendent
Joanne A. Corpuz made the announcement.
She said the double shift was
necessary due to the high number of enrollees in the said school.
Records show that CBNHS
poblacion campus had an abrupt increase of 149 junior high school enrollees for
SY 2018-2019, compared to only 85 students last school year.
To solve the problem on
classrooms shortage, the DepEd regional office considered the double shifting
of classes until the availability of classrooms.
Ms. Corpuz said the school
has now a buildable space for 12 classrooms and the construction will start
soon as DepEd considers it as a “priority project”.
For the first shift from 6 am
to 12 noon, students from the grade 7 together with the special program in the
arts and special science until 2 pm while the second shift from 12 noon to 6 pm
are the students from the Grades 8 to 10. There are 20 classes each in the
morning and afternoon.
Ms. Corpuz said they
conducted a general assembly meeting and a series of consultations with all the
parents, and they also sent the matter to the local government unit for
information dissemination to the tricycle associations on the needs of students
and teachers’ available transportation.
On July 6,2018, they held a
dry run of the said double shifting and found out it to be effective with the
help and cooperation of the tricycle transportation and the police for the
peace and order situation.
Mr. Corpuz said the full
implementation started on July 9, 2018.
With the implementation, Ms. Corpuz
said the students and parents found it beneficial because they have more time
to help their families as they only go to school for a half a day only.
“Tapnu kanu makatulong pay dagitoy ubbing iti balbalay da ta half
day laengen iti klase da ken basbassit
payen iti gastos dagiti nagannak ta imbes a mamintallo iti ipabalun dan gapu
iti mirienda iti bigat, pangaldaw ken mirienda manen iti malem, itan ket
mirienda laengen iti bigat wennu iti malem ta managan da met pangaldaw idiay
balbalay dan,” Ms. Corpuz said.
School records also show that
there are also students here from the different municipalities, including 41 from
Currimao, 35 from Paoay, seven from Pinili and one from Laoag City.
Meanwhile, Batac DepEd official
Nemalyn Ulep announced that the City of Batac National High School (CBNHS)-Rayuray
formally opened this SY 2018-2019 with 35 Grade 7 students.
Ms. Ulep said the newly
opened school borrowed four teachers from the different schools in Batac.
The school temporarily
occupies a building at Rayuray Elementary School while waiting for the
construction of a four-classroom building which completion is scheduled on the third
quarter of this year.
The CBNHS Rayuray was
conceived in 2014 through Guilermo Quemquem and the five neighboring barangays:
Nagbacalan, Camandingan, Baoa West, Baoa East and Palompong.
This is to solve the issue of
elementary graduates who could hardly afford to travel and study at the
poblacion for secondary level.
Former city DepEd
superintendent and now the provincial schools superintendent Vilma Eda
presented the proposal to the city council. She earlier proposed for the
creation of Baoa Integrated School but said concept failed to materialize.
With the desire of former Batac
Mayor Jeffrey Nalupta for the creation of high school in the area, a resolution
from the city council was approved for the conduct of feasibility study.
The city government supported
the outcome of the study through a resolution for the establishment of CBNHS
Rayuray and that the city government appropriated funds for the acquisition of
lot for the construction of school building.
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