As of September 13, a total of 24 million students have enrolled, 93.8% of last school year’s over 26 million students. Enrollees will still be accepted on school opening day, says DepEd.
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For the second time, millions of Filipino students will start classes again even as campuses remain closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Education Secretary Leonor Briones: Last year we opened classes, and we successfully ended classes.
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Briones: The challenges we are facing now are even tougher than those we battled last year.
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Briones: We opened classes last year. We successfully ended them. Now we are opening another school year. Isn’t that success worthy of celebration?
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Briones: When we declared victory over COVID-19 last year, some people got angry. How can one declare victory in the time of COVID-19? For them, it was the worst time to feel victorious.
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Enrollment period is extended until September 30. Initially, it was set from August 16 to September 13.
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Members of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) welcome the opening of the school year 2021-2021 by conducting a sunrise protest at the foot of Mendiola Bridge in Manila on Monday, September 13, They call on government to immediately release all their benefits.
Public school teacher Pauline Marie Marasigan-Romero of the Rafael Palma Elementary School, prepares her desk before meeting students during an online orientation for the opening of school year 2021-2022.
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At a school opening program on Monday, Briones says the call to continue education triumphed over calls for lockdowns and closures.
