Schools find ways to cope with evacuees

Three weeks since monsoon rains caused widespread flooding in Metro Manila, some schools are still unable to resume regular classes since the evacuees have yet to leave.

Luz Almeda, regional director of the Department of Education National Capital Region, said that the affected students and teachers were coping through take home lessons, shorter class meetings and assignments conveyed through text messages.

“All have resumed regular classes except a few in Malabon, Muntinlupa and Marikina,” she said.

“They have to resort to alternative delivery modes (of teaching) because we don’t have adequate classrooms as we still have a few evacuees,” Almeda said.

She said some of the affected schools have made arrangements with the evacuees to move out of the classrooms during the day and remain in one area of the school.

At night, the evacuees return to the classrooms. Dona Z. Pazzibugan