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Parents and students dry class materials as they help teachers prepare classrooms at Betty Go Belmonte Elementary School in Quezon City on August 3, 2024, days before its scheduled opening on August 5. Some schools in the capital region deferred the opening of classes due to the effects of the typhoon Carina-enhanced habagat which inundated parts of Metro Manila. Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News

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Joyce Balancio

Willard Cheng

<div><span id="isPasted" style="caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span dir="ltr"></span></span></div><p style="margin-bottom:8px">MANILA (<strong>UPDATED</strong>) — All public schools across the Philippines resumed classes Tuesday after being battered by recent rains and floods, according to the Department of Education (DepEd).</p><p style="margin-bottom:8px">Local governments in Metro Manila and nearby provinces used some schools as evacuation shelters for thousands of residents affected by the intense rains and flooding brought by Super Typhoon Carina and the Southwest Monsoon last month.</p><p style="margin-bottom:8px">Out of the more than 47,000 schools nationwide, some 1,063 did not join the class opening on July 29 due to the impact of Carina and the southwest monsoon, DepEd had said.</p><p style="margin-bottom:8px">The weather disturbances forced hundreds of schools to move the class opening to August 5, Monday. </p><p style="margin-bottom:8px">But as the remaining schools resumed classes on Monday, some 42 schools in Malabon City failed to join them due to heavy pre-dawn rains, DepEd Undersecretary Revsee Escobedo said.</p><p style="margin-bottom:8px">By Tuesday, DepEd announced that all schools nationwide had resumed &quot;normal operations&quot; and opened classes, adding that no schools were being used as evacuation centers.</p><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/7/27/decades-old-plight-newer-challenges-loom-as-philippines-enters-new-school-year-1006" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" title="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/7/27/decades-old-plight-newer-challenges-loom-as-philippines-enters-new-school-year-1006">READ: Decades-old plight, newer challenges loom as Philippines enters new school year</a></div><p style="margin-bottom:8px">The DepEd earlier said there were 355 destroyed classrooms across 9 regions due to Carina and the southwest monsoon, and 1,555 were partially damaged and would undergo major repairs and rehabilitations. </p><p style="margin-bottom:8px">The estimated worth of infrastructure damage was P1.66 billion, Escobedo said.</p><p>Non-infrastructure damage includes 10,773 pieces of school furniture (tables and chairs), 344,000 learning resources, and 869 computer packages.</p><p><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span>Public schools opened the new school year last July 29 with nearly 20 million learners enrolled. </p><p style="margin-bottom:8px">The DepEd expects the number to reach 27.7 million with enrollment activities extended until September 16.</p><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/7/29/98-pct-of-public-schools-nationwide-open-classes-on-time-deped-1215" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" title="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/7/29/98-pct-of-public-schools-nationwide-open-classes-on-time-deped-1215">READ: 98 pct of public schools nationwide open classes on time: DepEd</a></div><div><br/></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent"></span><span style="background-color:transparent"><strong>RELATED VIDEO:</strong></span></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent"></span><strong><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gyI41i_nTis?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></strong><br/></div>

<p>All public schools across the Philippines resumed normal operations Tuesday after being battered by rains and floods caused by the recent typhoon and southwest monsoon, according to the Department of Education.</p>

All public schools across the Philippines resumed normal operations Tuesday after being battered by rains and floods caused by the recent typhoon and southwest monsoon, according to the Department of Education.

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Joyce Balancio,

Willard Cheng

Published August 06, 2024 11:23 AM PHT

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Updated August 06, 2024 12:26 PM PHT

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