September 13, 2021
Sec. Leonor Briones, DepEd:
Pinakaimportante ang mga parents, ang pamahalaan na nagbigay ng pondo at suporta.
Nakakatuwa at nakakapagcelebrate ng pagbubukas ng Academic School Year ngayong taon 2021-2022.
Last year, I declared victory with the opening of classes on October 5, 2020.
Today, September 13, 2021, DepEd and the rest of the country celebrates with great joy and success in the opening of classes of the second year in the time of COVID-19.
Last year, we opened classes and we successfully ended those classes.
Now, we are opening another school year isn't that success worthy of celebration and the life (audio inaudible) of challenges.
When we declared victory on COVID-19 last year, some people got angry. How can one declare victory at a time of COVID-19? For them, it was the worst time to be victorious.
Yes, we ended the school year of 2020 in victory and we want to celebrate the opening of this school year in all about successes.
This morning, 24 million have returned to schools excluding those enrolled in the Alternative Learning System and overseas schools so we are expecting the enrollment number to grow.