Back-to-School for thousands of Ilonggo studes
Students from both public and private schools throughout Iloilo and nearby Western Visayas provinces join the over 21 million of the country's students who are officially back to school today.
As such, normal congested city traffic is to be expected alongside the normal flow of hundreds of passenger jeepneys and similar public transport.
Yesterday already saw the influx of returning students and workers from the provinces marking the end of the holiday break. It was a busy sight in various city terminals entire afternoon as the city's malls once again saw scores of teens huddled in restaurants and coffee shops.
Last-minute clean up was also observed in private schools particularly in the Iloilo City proper area while similar effort is expected today in public schools. With the return of 'normalcy' in the affairs of the city and Iloilo towns, police visibility has been ordered in strategic places.
Police Chief Superintendent Isagani Cuevas, Police Regional Office 6 Director led calls for continued police vigilance following a remarkably “peaceful” holiday break here.
Yet private security of private schools and universities will provide much of the visibility with the opening of classes a lure for street thugs.
As practiced in the past, opening of classes will see both uniformed police personnel and plainclothes police officers securing the school premises. It is also expectedly a busy day for the city's traffic enforcers and traffic aides.