KALIBO, Aklan – The Department of Education (DepEd) Aklan is ready for today’s resumption of classes in the elementary and high school levels.
Classes will still be via learning modules due to the coronavirus disease 20 pandemic.
According to Schools Division Superintendent Miguel Mac Aposin, the Oplan Balik-Eskwela Public Assistance Command Center (OBE-PACC) Division Committee will serve as the information and complaints processing and routing mechanism for the start of school year 2021-2022.
Queries, complaints and information requests from the general public will be accommodated by OBE-PACC.
Aposin said parents should get the learning modules from their children’s schools and they should observe the health protocols (washing of hands, wearing of facemask and shield and social distancing).
In DepEd Order 29, series of 2021, the new school year starts on Sept. 13, 2021 and will end on June 24, 2022. The 209 school days shall be inclusive of Saturdays and the five-day midyear break.
The Akla school division is expecting an increase of enrollees in all levels despite the coronavirus pandemic.
The DepEd Region 6 office announced that enrollment will still be conducted today although Director Ramir Uytico emphasized that no official declaration has been made on a possible extension.
Data from DepEd’s Policy, Planning and Research Division (PPRD) showed that as of Sept. 9, the region had 1,491,186 enrollees equivalent to 71.13 percent of their enrollment last school (2.09 million).
The figure is broken down into 1,332,281 enrollees in public schools; 143,972 enrollees in private schools; 2,008 in state universities and colleges / local universities and colleges (SUCs/LUCs); 9,458 in the Alternative Learning System (ALS); and 3,467 in Special Education (SPED)./PN
