Be slow to anger.

Education Secretary Sonny Angara yesterday led a dialogue with learners, parents, teachers and alumni of Parañaque National High School, amid efforts to ensure safety of students following the Tacloban shooting incident that left three students dead and about 20 others injured.

Days after a deadly shooting at San Jose National High School in Tacloban City that left three students dead, there was an apparent copycat planned mass shooting in a school in Tolosa, Leyte, which police reported thwarting on Wednesday night.

The shooting left three people dead and 20 others injured.

Citing recent attacks that left students dead and injured, the Catholic Educational Association of the Philippines (CEAP) yesterday declared that schools nationwide are in peril, warning that the incidents reflect a disturbing escalation – from bullying and peer conflicts to outright violence.

The Department of Education classified the shooting incident at a public high school in Tacloban City that left three students dead and five others injured as a “high-alert situation.”