Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez said the city government is distributing free school supplies to 70,735 public pre-school and Grades 1-6 students of Bacolod City.*
Negros Occidental and Bacolod City public elementary and high schools began full face-to-face classes starting Wednesday, November 2.
The Department of Education Division of Negros Occidental began 100 percent face-to-face classes but there were students whose houses were hit by floods who were absent, DepEd Negros Occidental spokesman Ian Arnold Arnaez said.
He also said some big schools in the division were faced with lack of classrooms and teachers.
In Bacolod City Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez said the city government is distributing free school supplies to 70,735 public pre-school and Grades 1-6 students.
The school supplies to be distributed starting Thursday cost P13 million.
Some schools in Bacolod City were also faced with lack of classrooms and teachers, and were enforcing a double-shift policy to accommodate all learners.
DepEd national spokesperson Michael Poa on Tuesday, said that students are free to choose whether to wear face masks indoors in line with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s Executive Order No. 7 making it voluntary.*