Secondary School Heads turn red flag schools into green -Dr. Feliza D. Dellosa

The 17 public Secondary School Heads in Sorsogon City decided to turn their red flag schools into green for the Senior High School (SHS) Program come School Year 2016-2017 as they gear up to the full implementation of the K to 12 Basic Education Program (BEP).

In the SHS Implementation Planning Workshop (Batch 3) attended by SDS Socorro V. Dela Rosa, Dr. Feliza D. Dellosa, the then Division SHS Coordinator, and Mr. Ireno M Dicen, the then Division Values Education Coordinator on October 22-24, 2014 at the BP International-Makiling, Jamboree Site, Los Baños, Laguna, six schools were not included in the shortlist of secondary schools to be implementing SHS.  It was a great dismay that Sorsogon National High School (SNHS), the premier school in Sorsogon City, was one of them.

In the shortlist, only 11 schools were included.  These are:  Bogña IS, Buenavista NHS, Buhatan INS, Gatbo NHS, Osiao PNHS, Pamurayan IS, Panlayaan TVHS, Rawis NHS, San Isidro NHS, Sawanga NHS, and Sto. Niño IS. 

Schools that were not included in the shortlist are Abuyog NHS, Buhatan NHS, Celestino G. Tabuena MNHS, Lydia D. Martinez MHS, Rizal INS, and SNHS.  The school heads of these schools were disappointed because they were there in the series of activities the division had for SHS implementation.

Engr. Ritchie R. Ortiz, In-Charge of Educational Facilities in the division, had site appraisal for schools that were initially found out for not having buildable space.  The team who attended Batch 3 of SHS implementation workshop in Makiling said to him that they had justified and recommend solutions to turn red into blue.

Through a Division Memorandum issued by the SDS Dela Rosa, a Final Decision- Making Workshop on SHS was conducted and facilitated by the Division SHS Coordinator on February 13, 2015 at the Division Library Hub, DepED-Division Office, Sorsogon City.   In this workshop, each of the 17 public secondary school heads not in the shortlist decided to turn his/her red flag school into green.  Not even one of them would like to be left behind come 2016.