Classes cancelled due to non-stop monsoon rains
LINGAYEN–Light to heavy monsoon rains since June 11 eventually forced the cancellation of classes in many towns and cities in Pangasinan on June 14, the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC) reported.
Avenix Arenas, PDRRMC spokesperson, explained that classes were canceled by local executives even without any typhoon to protect students and teachers whose health may be unduly exposed to diseases that accompany floods.
Under Executive Order No. 66 issued by then President Benigno Aquino III, there are two instances when classes may be canceled–the automatic cancellation and a declaration by local executives, which is also called the localized suspension of classes.
Under the localized suspension of classes, local executives can declare cancelation of classes even without any typhoon signal but the rains spawned by the southwest monsoon led to flooding when they see the lives of pupils, students, teachers and other citizens will be put to risk due to flooded streets and school grounds.
Towns and cities that cancelled classes were Bugallon (all levels, public and private., Aguilar (all levels), Lingayen (kinder to senior high school), Mangaldan (pre- school to elementary), Dagupan City (pre school to senior high), Basista (pre-school to senior high school), Urbiztondo (all levels), Dasol (all levels), Mangatarem, (kinder to senior high school), Bayambang (pre-school to high school), San Carlos City (all levels), Infanta (all levels), Bolinao ( pre school to elementary), and Bani (all levels, public and private).
In Dagupan City, Mayor Belen Fernandez canceled classes from pre-school to senior high school upon recommendation of school heads who noted that many school grounds were already inundated by non-stop rains.
Bernard Cabison, deputy chief of the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (CDRRMO) told the KBP Forum on June 14 that the school grounds of the Dagupan City National High School, the North Central Elementary School, Bolosan Elementary School and Carael Elementary School, and a portion of A.B. Fernandez West, in front of the Juan P. Guadiz Elementary School were already flooded.
Cabison said the Gabion type of retaining wall built along the Pantal River in Barangay Lasip Chico up to Barangay Malued, the southern barangays of Dagupan near the Calasiao borders have so far been spared from floods. (Leonardo Micua)
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