Honing minds in a school in the midst of fishponds
BINMALEY–It’s not your usual site for a school but the academic venture is proving to be successful.
Located in the middle of fishpond areas, the Jesus The Nazarene Academy in Barangay Dulag here opened only in June this year but already the school placed second overall in the Dagupan City-sponsored National Disaster Consciousness Month and won the championship plums for essay writing and slogan making contests.
Priest Rojohn Ramirez, founder and director of the Catholic school under the Lingayen-Dagupan archdiocese, said their school is “possibly the only one in Pangasinan located far from the town proper, in the middle of fishponds, yet patronized by many students even when it was only newly established this year”.
The school is about 15 kilometers from the main road but already lists 140 students currently enrolled.
That population is higher than several other schools, totalling 15, run under the archdiocese.
Parents of the students say the school saves them at least P2,000 per month in transportation and other costs.
Ramirez, whose parents were both school teachers and himself taking on teaching jobs as a seminarian, is pushing his “ambitious project” further with plans of opening a preparatory school next school year and extending their coverage to grade five and senior high school.
“The school, jokingly called ‘the university’ by the archbishop (Oscar Cruz), is still crawling but with God, using some instruments through our benefactors and in His own mysterious ways, we will no doubt surpass the tests,” Ramirez said.#
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