Davao City (4 October) -- Education Secretary Jesli Lapus and Davao City 2nd district representative Vincent Garcia will lead the official inauguration of two public school buildings: one is the newly-constructed 12 classrooms, 3-storey school building costing about P14, 342,000 at F. Bangoy National High School at barangay Sasa; and the other is the 4-classrooms, 2-storey building at the Sixto Babao Elementary School at barangay Ilang.

Department of Education (DepED) XI Director Susana Estigoy said the building at F.Bangoy, the first 3-storey schoolbuilding being built in the second district, is scheduled to be inaugurated on Monday (October 6) at 1:00pm.

In an interview with local mediamen, Congressman Garcia said that "in my first term of office, initially the schoolbuilding was only a 2-storey, 2 classroom building." With additional classrooms coming from my congressional funds and from Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte, a total of eight classrooms in my first term of office were built, he said.

Congressman Garcia said that "in my second term of office, I make sure that additional classrooms will be built in this particular F. Bangoy NHS since volume of enrollees has been increasing every year.

The F.Bangoy NHS has the biggest number of enrollees every year. In fact, for this year, enrollees totaled to 4,759 students and yet they only have 32 existing rooms used as classrooms, while the other two rooms are used as laboratory and library." With the additional 12-classrooms that we will inaugurate they will now have a total of 46 classrooms.

Garcia said "Secretary Lapus, who has been so generous to us, has also contributed a lot for the establishment of additional schoolbuildings in my second district."

For this calendar year (2008-2009), we have additional of 74 new classrooms. For each congressional district, it would be lucky if such a congressional district could get 10 classrooms. But with the assistance of Secretary Lapus, we were able to built additional 74 new classrooms to augment the lack of facilities in my district, he said.

Yesterday, a final meeting relative to the arrival of Secretary Lapus was discussed at the residence of Congressman Garcia together with DepED officials like Asst. Schools Division Supt. Eva Antipuesto; F.Bangoy NHS principal, Anastacia Armigos; and Maria Doreen Daplin, principal of Sixto Babao Elementary School.