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Philippine Science High School Central Mindanao CampusNangka, Balo-i, Lanao del Norte

Parents and Teachers Association

PTA Resolution # __

Whereas, the Philippine Science High School-Central Mindanao Campus, at Nangka inBalo-i, Lanao del Norte is a government Secondary School under the Department ofScience & Technology mandated to educate the bright or gifted children in the sciencesand mathematics for future leadership in nation building;

Whereas, Sec.2 of both R.A. 3661 & R.A. 8461 clearly mandates PhlSci to offer on afree scholarship basis a secondary course with special emphasis on subjectspertaining to the sciences with the end in view of pertaining its students for a sciencecareer;Whereas, access to Basic Education is a right that should be given the utmost grant inincentives or scholarship, in compliance to the policy mandated in R.A. 7687 (Science &Technology Scholarship Prog.) to deserving science students and other specially-giftedcitizens or cream of the countrys school children;

Whereas, it is a public knowledge that the Government Annual Budget for the year 2011has been allocated and appropriated as early as 2010 for the purpose of funding thestudents who were admitted this School Year, 2011;

Whereas, these children were admitted on April and May 2011 to the School curriculumwith equal financial support from the start of the School Year in the amount of PHp3,000.00 per month;

Whereas, these first year students family economic status was categorized arbitrarilyby the at PhilSci-CMC School management without the standard democratic processof consultation-dialogue with the parents who is the sector most concern in allrespect of their childrens life;

Whereas, the Parents Teachers Association is the recognized body accepted universallyas the main partners in the formal education of children and the youth;

Whereas, the PTA or even its President, Engr. Andrew Pancho, in spite of his supposedmembership to the Board of Trustees (RA 4861,Sec.5) as its representative, was NOTinvolved in whichever step of the process that was used by the School Management incategorizing freshmen students;

Whereas, parents were not informed categorically on the criteria and mechanics ofcategorizing the students family status and was not made clear for them to understandwhat category they were categorized on in spite of public requests during the PTAGeneral Assembly on the 12th of Sep 2011;

Whereas, the School Management has not came up with the Socio-Economic Profileof students as a more concrete basis on formulating the criteria and weight ofthese in categorizing;

Whereas PhlSciCMC is located in a secluded, almost desolate place bereft entirelyof any shop around it that sells commonly use school supplies and personal needsin case of emergency making it beyond compare with other PhlSci campuses ;

Whereas students have to rely on debt of gratitude but with generous add-on on theprice of goods they ask from Iligan City residents to procure on their behalf, thereby

jacking-up some more the expenses that parents have to cope-up with;

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Whereas majority if not most of the parents are from distant places that attendance toPTA meetings and School activities already entails a very highly significant amount ofmoney to earn and save;

Whereas PhilSci-CMC is located in one of the most depressed and socially volatileprovinces of the country thus, its students should be given a special consideration ingovernment funding in consonance with the mandate in R.A 8248, Sec. 2 to give priority

for scholars from poor municipalities/provinces;

Whereas, the food being served by the Canteen contracted by the School is not of thebest quality and of highest sanitary standard that we, parents have more to finance theremedies that must supplement and augment our childrens nutrition they need duringtheir growing-up years;

Whereas, PhlSci-CMC is surrounded by military detachments on almost all sideswhich bespeaks of the security hazards to the young students that parents have tofight to ignore; a situation that is even compensated (hazard pay) by Laws of the Land(Yearly GAA);

Whereas, the Scholarship Contract the students and their parents signed with theSchool isfor a full financial support and nothing therein mentioned any categorizedterms & conditions relative to amount of funding support a student receives;

Whereas, any change in the rules and conditions of any Contract-Agreement shouldbe agreed mutually likewise by both parties before,not in the middle of the game;

Whereas, imposing that so-called socialized scheme of support to freshmen only is agross discrimination against the more innocent and ignorant, younger children thathave yet to be weaned and learn to mange themselves to cope up with the world away

from the full support of family they were used to;

Resolved, as it is hereby resolved, by the parents of first year students atPhilippine Science High SchoolCentral Mindanao Campus that categorizing families forfinancial support of their students should be done in a democratic principle that follows atransparent and agreeable process among the affected sectors;

Resolved further, that the socialized scheme for student financial support should beapplied to incoming freshmen next School Year 2012 with the adherence to making thescheme loud and clear from the very start of Announcement of the CompetitiveExamination; in the Instructions to Qualifiers; as well as in the Contract of Students

with PhlSci, detailing the criteria and the expected expenditures of a student in eachcategory, thereby transparency and appropriate guidance to accept or not, without ashade of deception is achieved.

Signed this th day of September 2011 at Philippine Science High School Central Mindanao Campus in Balo-I, Lanao del Norte.

President