By Dolly Yasa
BACOLOD City – Elementary and High School students in Moises Padilla will now be getting the help they need in learning their modules as the local government launched its “Hugpong sa Pagtuon Magallon” program.
The launch coincided with the orientation seminar conducted by the Department of Education (DepEd) to the 90 volunteer tutors comprised of daycare workers and licensed teachers held simultaneously at the Barangay 1 covered court and Moises Padilla Elementary School early this week.
The program, which is the brainchild of Mayor Ella Celestina Garcia-Yulo, hopes to address the literacy problems of the town as well as help in the learning of students, especially those in hinterland barangays who have no internet access and whose parents do not know how to read and write, since the roll out of DepEd’s distance learning program.
Adults who do not know how to read and write may also take part in the program.
As per DepEd’s record, Moises Padilla has a total of 10,653 students for the year 2021 wherein 7,159 are in elementary while 3,494 are from high school.
Guinpana-an National High School Main has the highest number of enrollees at 1,392 while Salapid Elementary School only has 99 enrollees among the 25 DepEd schools in the town.
Among the total enrollees of DepEd, 807 are non-readers with Guinpana-an Elementary School having the highest number at 161 students out of 722 students enrolled in the school while Guinpana-an National High School and its extensions have no non-readers.
Non-readers are readers who read below grade level and struggles with comprehension, phonics, and vocabulary.
The initiative was supposed to be implemented last year but due to the pandemic, it was placed on hold.
