AFTER more than two years of the pandemic, the Manaoag National High School (MNHS) will start face to-face classes for four selected special classes starting April 18 this year, but initially just for Grades 7, 8 and 9.

Roderick de Guzman, MNHS principal, in a meeting with parents last April 6 (Wednesday), clarified that the students in each of these grades will only to go school two days a week and spend the rest of the week for modular classes.

He said that per guidelines of the Department of Education (DepEd), only limited number of students enrolled in Special Programs for Science, Math, Arts and Sports will attend face-to-face classes. The rest will still be on modular education in their respective homes,

Under the arrangement, students will just be in school for only four hours in those two days. The first batch of 20 students will be in school from 7:00 a.m. to 11 a.m. (or 12 noon if classes would start at 8:00 a.m.) from Monday to Tuesday and would be on module from Wednesday to Friday.

The second batch of 20 students will hold their classes from Thursday to Friday and on modular education from Monday to Wednesday.

To ensure that the students go home after their classes to avoid any possible infection with  COVID-19 virus, their parents and guardians are required to drop off and pick up the students. No student will be released from school after their classes if they are not picked up by their parents or guardians.

Upon entering the gate of MNHS, a nurse will take the students’ body temperature and students with slight fever will be turned back.  Inside the classrooms, the students are one meter apart in observance of the physical distancing protocol and teachers will enforce a separate entry and exit points in the classrooms.

The students in face-to-face classes will continue till their last exams in June.

De Guzman said the expanded face-to-face classes will depend on the health conditions of the students.  If no student gets infected after one week, another face-to-face classes for the higher grades will be opened the week after.

De Guzman and Jim Vinuya, head of the science department, already held separate meetings with parents of learners in special program classes for Grades 12, who will be the next to attend face to face classes.

All students in regular classes from Grade 7 to 12 will still attend modular classes till further notice. (Leonardo  Micua)

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