Students in the Mangabon Elementary School in Cebu City experience face-to-face classes for the first since the COVID-19 pandemic struck two years ago. | Photo Courtesy of DepEd Cebu City
These pilot schools included the Sibugay Integrated School, Pamutan Integrated School, Mangabon Elementary School, Cantipla Integrated School, Tabunan Integrated School, Sinsin National High School, Deosis Elementary School, Lusaran National High School, Tagbao National High School, Taptap Integrated School, Sinsin Elementary School, Adlaon Integrated School, and Bitlang Integrated School.
She also noted that the 13 schools received their safety seals recently, which means that they have the protocols set in place for F2F classes and their barangays have not recorded any COVID-19 cases in the past two months. The schools have been given a minimum of two weeks to implement the limited F2F classes and gather the necessary data, but they may continue holding the F2F classes until the end of the school year in July 2022.