MANILA – Sen. Francis “Chiz” Escudero clarified to education officials his proposal of giving students a passing grade for the current grading period in areas badly hit by the recent flooding in the country.“Let me be very clear on this: I never said students in the calamity areas be accelerated or promoted to the next grade or year,” Escudero said in a statement.
“What I favor is granting credits for this quarter or semester so students can help their families and communities recover from these disasters,” he added.
Tropical storms “Ondoy” (international code name Ketsana) and “Pepeng” (international code name Parma) brought heavy rains that caused massive flooding in Northern and Central Luzon.
According to the Office of Civil Defense (OCD), 62 Central Luzon towns remain flooded while some towns in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) are isolated because of landslides.
The OCD noted that the death toll of from both storms is at 712. Hundreds of thousands of families were affected by the twin storms.
“The numbers speak of the suffering our people are undergoing right now. The trauma inflicted on our children can very well be immeasurable,” continued Escudero.
“To say then that our students will now pray for super typhoons every year so they can pass school without studying is very lamentable and uncalled for.”
Classes have been cancelled in most areas in Northern and Central Luzon as schools served as evacuation centers. Other schools, meantime, have been damaged. Some roads are still impassable.
Education officials, for their part, said that teachers will “go the extra mile or even bend policies to make up for the disruption of classes caused by Ondoy and Pepeng,” Escudero’s statement read.
“The semester is just about over. I am sure the experience they had with this calamity alone may be more than what some other people will learn in their lifetime,” noted the senator.
as of 10/15/2009 8:16 PM
Source: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/youth/10/15/09/chiz-clarifies-call-calamity-diplomas
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