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BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
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Monday, June 5, 2017
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ILOILO City – Classes resume despite the two-day transport strike that also starts this day.
For queries and concerns related to the reopening of schools, the Department of Education (DepEd) Region 6 has made available a hotline – telephone number 336-2816.
According to DepEd 6 spokesperson Lea Belleza, the department leaves it to the sound discretion of parents whether they would send their children to school today and tomorrow or not.
Some students live near schools and are thus not deemed affected by the transport strike, she said.
DepEd-6 is welcoming back to school an estimated 1.2 million students in public elementary and high schools.
In this city, Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog said he won’t suspend classes.
“We have already talked to public utility jeepney drivers and operators and we explained to them that we will not suspend classes on June 5 and 6. This is the announcement of DepEd, too,” said Mabilog.
Schools division offices will have their respective hotline numbers or help desks, too, through which or where the public can bring their school-related queries.
“They can call us regarding sa enrollment, school transfer sang mga bata and other issues relative sa aton resumption of classes,” said Belleza.
Last school year (2016-2017), DepEd-6 welcomed 1,107,589 students in public elementary and high schools.
The two-day transport strike is a protest against the modernization program of the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board which includes phasing out public utility jeepneys 15 years old and older.
This would be the second strike of jeepney drivers and operators in three months. They joined a nationwide strike just this Feb. 27 against the jeepney phaseout.
In the February transport strike, Mabilog was forced to order the suspension of classes in all levels in Iloilo City./PN
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