How crowded QC schools cope

Public schools in Quezon City which are expecting excess enrollees can have these students accommodated in other campuses, as the city once again grapples with the lack of classrooms and teachers.

At least 10 elementary and high schools are expected to face this problem in the coming academic year, all located in District 2, the city’s most populous section, according to city schools division superintendent Dr. Corazon Rubio.

Last week, assistant superintendent Rowena Cacanindin disclosed that up to 10,000 high school students will be put on a home study program this year to ease overcrowding in six high schools.

Quezon City is so far the only city in the country where the Department of Education has been implementing this alternative mode of learning on a large scale for the past three years.

The 10 schools projected to exceed their enrollment capacity are Payatas B, President Corazon C. Aquino, Lupang Pangako, San Diego and Benigno Aquino in the elementary level; and Batasan Hills National, Commonwealth, Holy Spirit National, Justice Cecilia Muñoz Palma and Judge Feliciano Belmonte in the secondary level.

Excess enrollees at Payatas B and Lupang Pangako, for example, will be accommodated at Payatas C Elementary School, according to a statement issued Tuesday by City Hall.

Two mobile classrooms will be set up at President Corazon C. Aquino until a new four-story, 24-classroom school building is completed there, it added.

Officials are also currently negotiating with leaders of Barangay Batasan Hills for the use of the homeowners’ association building for kindergarten classes, it said.

The division is also considering night classes to address any classroom shortage that may arise during the full implementation of the K+12 curriculum this school year, the statement added.