THE Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) in Dagupan approved on May 25 Resolution No. 4509 requesting the local school board to allocate an amount from its annual budget for the construction, repair and maintenance of various schools in the city.

Under the Local Government Code, local school boards are allotted a Special Education Fund from one percent of real property tax revenues intended primarily for the improvement and development of school facilities.

“We, in the City Council, want to ensure that our children study and learn under the best environment possible,” said Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, the SP presiding officer.

Fernandez said the resolution was passed after she reported on the results of her ocular inspection of the city schools, and discovered that there still are public elementary and secondary schools whose classrooms are unfit for occupancy while other rooms are over-crowded.

The vice mayor cited the case of East Central Elementary School in Barangay Mayombo where classes are automatically suspended during high tide because its premises are easily flooded each time.

Consequently, attendance rate of pupils drop and many seek transfers in already over-crowded schools.

School principal Socorro Dimalanta told the vice mayor that the frequent suspension of classes has resulted in poor academic performance of students even after compensating the suspension with make-up classes during Saturdays.

Dimalanta recalled that that the school suspended classes for three months during and in the aftermath of Typhoon Cosme.–LM

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