The Vista Alegre-Granada Elementary School in Bacolod City is a priority area for teacher allocation, Education regional director Victoriano Tirol said yesterday.

Tirol said he is maximizing the allocation given to him by the national office for additional teachers to be hired this school year. He assured the Bacolod City Schools Division that it will be given a teacher for the new school.

Tirol said the divisions of Bacolod, Iloilo, and Boracay are among the priority areas to receive additional teachers.

He said he is aware that the Vista Alegre-Granada school is newly constructed and it badly needs, not only new teachers, but also other facilities such as classrooms and chairs.

Earlier, Supt. Milagros Gonzales said the city government, through the Local School Board, hired para-teachers for the new school.

Meanwhile, Tirol said that public schools in the region will get at least two non-teaching personnel to ease the burden of classroom teachers.

He said that in most schools, teachers were also assigned to do administrative and clerical work, rendering them inefficient in their duty as classroom teachers. On the shortage of textbooks in public schools, Tirol said that aside from limited supply of books, changes in the curriculum also contribute to the problem.

He said that any change in the curriculum means automatic changes in the syllabus used by the teachers.

Changing the syllabus, Tirol said, causes delay in the printing of instructional materials, vis-à-vis distribution of books to the schools.

Tirol also admitted that some of the textbooks used in the schools today contain erroneous information, but he said this is beyond the control of the regional office.

He also said that that DepEd national office has already met with the publishers of these textbooks.

Tirol said the department is doing its best to ensure that the next generation of books that will be supplied to the students will be error-free.*NB

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