By Bernadine Astillero-Gabawan
BAYOG, Zamboanga del Sur – The
Department of Education (DepEd) Zamboanga del Sur Schools Division in
collaboration with the local government unit of Bayog conducted a two-day
Education Summit last week at the Bayog Central Elementary School.
The summit aimed at surfing causes of low school
performance and to formulate plans and strategies to improve the same, needing convergence
of all government agencies.
Summit outputs will be presented to the
Executive-Legislative Agenda meeting together with the outputs of the
forthcoming health, agriculture and peace summit.
“We are part and parcel of the problem on educating our
children. That is why we will look into where the problem had started,” said Mayor
Leonardo Babasa Jr. during the opening program.
Provincial Schools Division Superintendent Dr. Arturo
Bayocot commended the municipal leadership saying “this activity is the first
of its kind, a benchmark in the whole province since there are no other LGUs
that look into the performance of the schools and the teachers.”
The event was attended by all teachers of Bayog DepEd
District headed by District Supervisor Rudy Luna, local paid teachers,
municipal officials and department heads led by Mayor Babasa, other key
officials and the 28 barangay chairmen.
The summit ended with a covenant signing among
stakeholders comprising school officials, municipal officials, barangay
officials, civic leaders and others. (PIA9)