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BY MAE SINGUAY
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Monday, May 29, 2017
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BACOLOD City – Government vehicles might be used to ferry passengers, especially students and teachers, who will be affected by the scheduled transport strike on June 5 and 6.
Councilor Renecito Novero was hoping transport groups holding a temporary suspension of trips would reconsider.
“But we are prepared anyway,” said the chairman of the Sangguniang Panlungsod education committee.
Aside from its own vehicles, city hall might ask the IPM Construction and Development Corp. to lend some of its garbage trucks, Novero said, citing a dialogue with Executive Assistant Moises de la Cruz.
Several transport groups are holding a strike in time for the opening of classes to protest the government’s modernization program that seeks to phase out public utility vehicles 15 years old and older.
Classes will open on June 5 despite the transport strike, said Department of Education (DepEd) Negros Island Region director Gilbert Sadsad.
In a text message, Sadsad told Panay News that DepEd secretary Leonor Briones announced that classes will open even in Marawi City, where clashes between government troops and rebels were ongoing.
Sadsad said the DepEd will leave it to the local chief executives to suspend classes during the transport strike if they deem it appropriate.
Parents and teachers are also encouraged to make a “practical decision” — stay in the house if there are vehicles at all — he said.
Earlier Negros Occidental High School principal Mario Amaca told the press that classes will push through but students who cannot attend because of lack of transportation will be excused.
“It is beyond my capacity to suspend classes. Only the DepEd regional director or Mayor Evelio Leonardia could declare the suspension of classes,” Amaca said.
Teachers are required to hold classes for students who will manage to reach school./PN
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