With or without face-to-face classes in the coming year, some 240 incoming freshmen scholars of Tanauan City are ready to face the brand new year 2022, at least for the duration of the first quarter.
Thanks a lot as Mayor Angeline “Sweet” Halili’s made it a point to release to them their educational cash grants in time or a couple of days before 2021 ended, to the tune of P5,000 to each of them.
Distribution took two days (Dec. 28-29, 2021) for the city’s cash department to finish and the parents of the scholars were none the happier as the money given out would help them defray their children’s daily allowance requirement going to school in the first three months at least of 2022.
This and other educational concerns are tops on the local chief executive’s agenda of governance.
Four days before Christmas, the city hall also distributed 1,711 android cellphones, this time for public school teachers.
Aside from this, additional units of 11,066 tablets for Grade 4-6 public school students were also given out by the city.
The school children and their teachers were so happy with their gifts as they can now cope up with their studies amid the pandemic’s distant learning mode.
The 11k+ tablets given out were in addition to the 10K units distributed earlier in 2020 at the height of the Covid pandemic.
And would you believe the happiest lot in this gesture were poor parents in the city who can hardly afford to send their children to school?
Depending on the brand, quality tablets cost at least P4K now.