Automatic Enrolment

General Santos City - Department of Education (DepEd) officials in the city said it would religiously implement the automatic enrolment for public school students this coming school year.

Schools Division Superintendent Estrella Lariosa said that pupils for grade 2 to 6 in elementary public schools and 2nd year to graduating high school students would no longer line up for enrolment this school year.

"Those pupils and students who passed all their subjects in the previous school year (2007-2008) will be automatically listed in the next grade or level," explained Lariosa. She said that only transferees and incoming Grade 1 pupils or first year high school students would be made to undergo the enrolment process.

Lariosa however made it clear that there will be no fees to be collected from those who will be enrolling in public schools.

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