City schools need 11T armchairs

CEBU, Philippines - Cebu City needs almost 11,000 armchairs to fill the newly constructed school buildings in 36 public elementary and high schools.

Dr. Rhea Mar Angtud, city schools division superintendent, reported to Vice Mayor Joy Augustus Young that 22 public elementary schools need 5,575 armchairs while 14 public high schools need 5,379.

Despite the number of the needed armchairs, Angtud assured that no student is currently attending classes without a chair.

Angtud explained that the needed armchairs will be used for the newly constructed classrooms or school buildings. These new classrooms and buildings are expected to address the congested classrooms in the city.

Basak Community School in Barangay Basak-Pardo needs 1,140 armchairs including those that will be used to replace the defective chairs.

The public schools that need more armchairs are situated in the city’s urban and mountain barangays of the north and south districts. Mayor Michael Rama personally witnessed during the Brigada Eskwela last week that several defective armchairs have been piled up outside the classrooms.

The mayor immediately ordered the carpenters of the City School Board to speed up the repair of the wooden armchairs. A Korean school has promised to donate 1,900 armchairs to the city. Young was happy to announce that the general manager of the Philippine Office for International Center of Wonkwang Health Science University has visited him yesterday to bring the good news.

Jace J. Hwang has promised Young that his school will be donating armchairs to help address the problem. — /FPL (FREEMAN)