BAGUIO Central School is expecting around 3,500 elementary students to flock to the city’s largest public elementary school with the entry of late enrollees until the end of June this year.
Esther Litilit, principal of Baguio Central School, said as of June 1, the present enrollees is at 2,892 and is expecting more enrollees in the coming days.
“We are expecting that it will go beyond 3,000 and we will be accepting because we are in the public school and we should not reject any kid so long as they would want to study in our school,” Litilit said.
Several problems were encountered during the first day of classes but the school official said the opening went smoothly.
“We will be accepting late enrollees until the end of June. Of course we encourage all parents whose children are interested to study at Baguio Central School to come as soon as possible because if no teachers would be in charge of the enrolment, I will do the enrolment of the children,” the principal said.
Some 100 personnel of the Baguio City Police Office (BCPO) were deployed in the different public educational institutions in the city to provide security and assistance to parents, guardians and the students.
“We thank the PNP of their visibility. I was here at around 6:25 a.m. and they were ahead of me and it’s so nice, as if the environment is so peaceful and it’s all orderly because of their presence. And this is an addition in the process of movements in the school premises,” Litilit added.
Litilit welcomed the plan of the BCPO to conduct lectures on preventing bullying.
“We are very positive and we like that. By next week, we will be starting to meet with the parents in the different grade levels and we surely invite them so that with the parents, we would be talking about this. Of course, we will also invite the policemen during the flag ceremony of each grade level which we will be doing every day,” she said.
Being the largest public elementary school in the city, Baguio Central School still lacks in classroom.
“We are targeting 1:45 for grades 4 to 6 but we have gone more than that in some classrooms, and we are targeting 1:35 from grades 1 to 3, and we are also targeting 1:25 for kinder but then for sure we are expecting more,” Litilit added.