Flor welcomes DepEd Mobile Teachers for juvenile delinquents
BACOLOD CITY — Sangguniang Panglungsod Member Celia Matea Flor, chairperson of the Committee on Social Services and Development, informed recently that the Department of Education (DepEd) had responded to her resolution passed last month informing the latter to provide mobile teachers for children in conflict with the law (CCWL) and other juvenile delinquent children which are now detained at the Social Development Center (SDC) situated at the back of the Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) Headquarters in Brgy. Taculing.
Flor said that this is a continuing study program that DepEd provided for minor children who did not finish her/his studies in elementary and high school.
She emphasized that this program is very effective considering that most children nowadays did not realize the relevance and importance of studies.
Flor clarified that she passed last month this resolution because she had in mind that the DepEd established a program called “Alternative Learning System” with the main purpose of encouraging children in conflict with the law to continue their studies no matter what offense they committed under our penal law.
She added that under ALS program, children in conflict with the law shall be taught the basic education course like Math and English. Flor said that the ALS was established because of the research that the cases of drop-out in schools were increasing and cause alarm to the education sector.
“I feel that the DepEd now will sustain this program because our drop-out cases continue to increase and according to his figures it ranges to 20 up to 30 percent,” Flor added. The SDC accommodates hundreds of youthful offender since the previous administration of former Mayor Luzviminda Valdez.