Enrollment is now going on in both private and public school.While private school are having their tuition fees increases, it’s another way around in public school head of the department declared a zero collection upon enrollment. Unlike before parents were asked to pay miscellaneous and p.t.a. dues. This time parents will no longer pay.

Now everybody has the access on education for free really free. But the problem of the school heads is the extra operating cost of the school where government can not provide. This include the salary of the security guards and janitors. Salaries of these people come from p.t.a. funds.

In elementary department pre-school teacher also depending on the p.t.a. though parents contribute a small amount of tuition fees. Our local DepEd official here in Davao is planning to make his move to persuade the DepEd national secretary to reconsider the collection of p.t.a. dues.

This move will surely gets a negative impact to some parents knowing our economic situation.
However Mr. DepEd official is right to do it if not, public school can no longer ensure safety of students, since for sure they can no longer hire security guard at all. Students will be the one to clean the schoolrooms and campus this means disturbance of their studies. In short this small contribution is a big help, so our children can come to school safe and focusing only their main objective in schooling.

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