The Visayan Electric Co. Inc. (Veco), Metro Cebu’s lone power utility, has donated a two-story, four-classroom school building to the Paknaan Elementary School (PES) in Mandaue City.
PES is the 10th school that received Veco’s school building project under the power company’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) program.
Mandaue City Mayor Jonas Cortes said the project is a testament to public-private partnership. Veco took care of 70 percent of the total cost, while the local government funded the remaining cost.
PES principal Clarissa Villaver said that the new building will be used by the school’s 550 Grade 4 pupils.
Villaver said there are a total of 3,848 pupils in the PES and that one of their problems is the classroom shortage.
â€Veco has partly answered the 38 classrooms shortage but more is needed,†she said.
Villaver said PES’ 1,800 pupils from grades 1 to 3 are on two shifts.
The morning shift is in school from 6 a.m. until noon, while pupils in the afternoon shift should be in school at 1 p.m. Their classes last until 6 p.m.
Despite the pupils’ pressure to learn in an overcrowded institution and the teachers’ obligation to impose the daily classroom discipline, the school has maintained their National Achievement Tests (NAT) rating, with zero dropouts.
Veco senior office (COO) Sebastian Lacson posed the challenge for educators to maintain and improve their NAT rating. - pna.gov.ph
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