Mindanaotoday.com | Oro schools set F2F graduation
By: Uriel Quilinguing
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Public elementary and secondary schools in Cagayan de Oro are set to hold face-to-face graduation rites – the first time in two years – starting Monday, June 27.
But with the city’s prevailing Alert Level 1 status, minimum public health standards such as masking, distancing, hand-sanitizing and disinfections, however, would still be observed.
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going,” read a line in a message which Schools Division Superintendent Dr. Cherry Mae Limbaco-Reyes posted on the Department of Education Cagayan de Oro official Facebook account.
“Forge on with certainty and assurance, have the courage, the dedication and endurance to keep going,” Limbaco-Reyes advised all graduates and completers in 127 basic education schools under her watch.
Limbaco-Reyes also reminded teachers, parents and students that hand-shaking, even fist-bump, is not allowed during the graduation ceremonies.
At the multipurpose hall of South City Central School (SCCS) in Nazareth village, 342 six-graders would take turns – in six batches – in receiving Certificates of Graduation Monday and Tuesday (June 27 and 28).
SCCS Principal Jerry Taruc said Limbaco-Reyes has confirmed to physically attend one of the six batches to confirm graduating learners have satisfactorily complied with the academic requirements of the state’s education agency.
He said the SDS will be represented in other batches of Grade 6 completers even as similar F2F graduation of completers in elementary and high schools would be held citywide.
“This is the first time we’re holding face-to-face graduation ceremonies in two years,” said Taruc, but the number of graduating learners so that physical distancing can strictly be observed.
He said that unlike in pre-Covid pandemic commencement exercises, no guest speaker for the graduation program was invited.
School year 2021-2022 officially ended Friday, June 24, as officially announced by DepEd earlier.
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