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The Nautilus | The Official English Publication of Santa Cruz National High School Volume 50 Issue 1 September - April 2023
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FLOPPING IN FILIPINO Validators unveil students’ difficulty in speaking National Language
are in favor of allowing students with different genders to wear anything they want
cartoon by: ever OCARIZA Lost in Translation. Students find refuge in english to give voice to their deepest ideas instead of using their own mother language.
by aubrey RHOM
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anta Cruz National High School (SCNHS) students claimed difficulties in speaking and comprehending the Filipino language during the focus group discussion (FGD) of the field-testing activity of the National Historical Commission of the Philippine (NHCP)Department of Education (DepEd) Patricio Mariano version of Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. “Sometimes we cannot communicate well with the students since they struggle to speak and understand the Filipino language, and they often say terms in Cebuano that we cannot understand as well,” Joselito Asi said in Filipino, Senior Education Program Specialist and validator from the DepEd Central office. Moreover, 110 out of 160 student- participants admitted that they still prefer communicating in English instead of Filipino. “To address the problem, students translated terms into English,” one of the validators, Jason Villena, said. “But teachers were there to guide them, so the discussion still went well.” read more on page 3
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We cannot communicate well with the students since they struggle to speak and understand the Filipino language Joselito Asi
Senior Education Program Specialist, Deped Central Office
school news
PTA to rehabilitate comfort rooms
Students urged to be disciplined users by thea GUIMARY
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photo by fiona LORICO Employing Discipline. SCNHS students to observe cleanliness in using comfort rooms as demanded by PTA.
omfort rooms in SCNHS-Senior High School and Junior High School needed immediate repairs, but students worsened the issue by putting garbage, tissues, and napkins in toilet bowls.
“There is a need for us to repair and rehabilitate our comfort rooms, it is really one of my current agendas, but regardless, discipline among students (in using CRs) is also a problem,” SPTA President Donnell John B. Contiveros said in an interview. Contiveros claimed that the Local School Board provided
a 150,000 pesos budget for the repairs of CRs after they passed a resolution requesting the Municipal Mayor and other officials in the province for the additional construction of CRs near the Gulayan sa Paaralan area. He added that the PTA funds need to be increased to repair CRs since only a few parents have
paid their contributions. The PTA planned to fix and construct CRs and water sources and repair classrooms and the PTA office. He wanted transparency of PTA collections, projects, and other school obligations, as well as proper distribution of mandatory contributions of PTA funds for the school year 2022-2023.