Disenfranchising students
Leonardo j Galvez
24 Aug 2011
Re: Lim bent on hospital project
No doubt about it, the proposed Dagupan City Hospital is a laudable project. It’s high time the city should have its own. The provincial hospital now regional is not city-owned, a belief that has mistakenly been passed on from generation to generation.
Construction of the hospital at the site of an elementary school is a lame excuse at making it more accessible to the public. Why not buy a site? If city hall could cause the purchase of the much-talked lot in barangay Awai in San Jacinto — reportedly a useless investment — why not one for the hospital?
If the plan materializes, it will disenfranchise hundreds of students who call Juan Guadiz Elementary School their home.These kids will be driven out of their school at no fault of their own. It’ll being untold inconvenience(s) on the part of the children and teachers not to mention parents worrying about adjustment syndrome in the new environment.
The perennial classroom shortage that occurs every school year opening brought about by increase enrolment in the elementary, secondary and tertiary levels will be compounded. Is the city aware of population explosion or pretend not to know it to justify their much-publicized plan?
Is it a done-deal? Approval of the project needs the imprimatur of the Department of Education not the office of the city schools superintendent whose job is recommendatory in nature.
In the event that the acquisition of the sprawling elementary school lot is aborted, the resourceful and good-looking city hall business technocrats will be ordered to come out with a plan patterned after the Awai purchase.
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