By Jocelyn P.
Alvarez
ZAMBOANGA
CITY - With a sense
of normalcy slowly being felt here, the
city government issued this advisory on Sunday, September 22.
Public Information Officer Sheila Belen Covarrubias
said classes will resume Wednesday, September 25 in both public and private
schools that are outside “conflict” areas or areas of concern.
However, school officials were asked to report for
work starting Monday, Sept. 23 and 24 “for an organizational meeting and
preparations for class resumption,” Covarrubias said.
Department of Education (DepEd) division office is yet
to issue specific guidelines, Covarrubias informed.
It can be recalled that Mayor Ma. Isabelle “Beng”
Climaco on Friday (Sept. 20) said “the resumption of classes will likewise
depend on the go-signal of our Armed Forces of the Philippines and the PNP to
ensure that it is safe for our children to go back to school.”
In preparation for the resumption of classes, Mayor
Climaco urged the barangay officials, tanods and other force multipliers to
take active role in securing the schools in their vicinity.
Meanwhile, mechanisms on how to help the affected
students were set during the recent meeting of the Crisis Management Committee (CMC)
and DepEd Secretary Armin Luistro, together with Sec. Dinky Soliman of DSWD.
It was decided that students, particularly those
directly affected by the conflict numbering to some 12,000 will avail of the
so-called Alternative Delivery Mode while those students who became hostage
victims will avail of the so-called Distant Learning Mode. (PIA9)