DAGUPAN CITY-- A four-storey school building donated by the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation and a three-storey building donated and built by the Department of Public Works and Highways both for the Jose de Venecia Sr. Memorial National High School were inaugurated here on Friday.
The inauguration was attended by Pangasinan Fourth District Rep. Christopher de Venecia, Mayor Belen Fernandez, City Schools Division Superintendent Lorna Bugayong, Assistant City Schools Superintendent Lourdes Servito and City Councilor Marvin Fabia.
Both edifices were built to solve the classroom shortage of the school and in response to the needs of senior high school students.
Rep. de Venecia said President Rodrigo Duterte is bent on building more school buildings for the benefit of pupils and students.
He added that some pupils and students do not go to school because their classrooms are not in order and some, dilapidated.
In his speech, De Venecia called on students to discern all what they read in social media due to what he called proliferation of fake news, stressing that not all news appearing on social media are true.
He noted that many of the students of the school now rely more often in social media than the mainstream media like newspapers, because of their proximity to high tech gadgets like cellphones, tablets and the internet.
De Venecia said that this was only the first time in the history of the city that two high-rise school buildings are inaugurated on the same day in the same school.
Mayor Fernandez, who was the focal person of the League of Cities in helping Department of Education (DepEd) provide school rooms for senior high school students in cities nationwide, worked with Rep. Gina de Venecia so that the two school buildings would be built.
She was assured by a DepEd engineer who attended the inauguration that more school buildings will be built in Dagupan City soon. (PNA) DECEMBER 2017
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