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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px;display:block" width="960"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/178088743242120260119-senate-probe-flood-control-curlee-discaya-JC9558 (10).jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left"> Enrollment continues at Tiltilon Elementary School in Liloan, Cebu, one of the schools damaged by Tyhpoon Tino in 2025. The school’s principal said six classrooms are still damaged forcing them to implement shifting<em>. Annie Perez </em></span></span></span></div><p>CEBU CITY — Tiltilon Elementary School in Liloan, Cebu continues to reel in from the effects left by the devastation of Typhoon Tino in November 2025 as it starts a new school year Monday, June 8. </p><p>Principal Veronica Cabahug shared that their situation is getting “better” with some of the damaged rooms already usable.</p><p>“We requested from the engineering to inspect the building, so we are able to use nine classrooms and we repaired two. All in all, we have eleven more,” shared Cabahug in Cebuano.</p><p>They also made a makeshift classroom.</p><p>After the typhoon, these classrooms were abandoned, forcing students to continue the school year in a modular set-up. Students only reported to school twice a week due to the lack of classrooms.</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>DAMAGED CLASSROOMS</strong></div><div><br/></div><p>Despite this improvement, Cabahug only has one wish for this school year: for all damaged classrooms to be repaired.</p><p>However, there are still eight damaged classrooms, with one needed to be demolished and rebuilt.</p><p>“I already sent a letter, even to the President,” added Cabahug.</p><p>Their school was one of those that was visited by President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. during the aftermath of the typhoon.</p><p>It also served as an evacuation center for the affected residents.</p><p>Because of the lack of classrooms, they have to implement shifting twice a day except for grade 1 and kindergarten. This means two grade levels share the classroom in a day.</p><p>The school also sustained damage in its fence, which was promised to be repaired by donors, but has not started yet until today.</p><p>Two classrooms will also be built as donated by a private non-government organization.</p><p>The typhoon also damaged the electrical lines of a portion in the school.</p><p>“It is hot. We are advising students to bring their fans,” shared Grade 3 teacher Almira Grace Garcia.</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>STILL IN TRAUMA</strong></div><div><br/></div><p>Cabahug also sheared that the fear remains in them as the Philippines enter the rainy season.</p><p>“It will not go away, it was a once-in-a-lifetime flood,” she further said.</p><p>“The flood really brought us trauma even if there were no classes when it happened,” added Garcia.</p><p>Some parents also shared the sentiment.</p><p>“I’m scared a bit but hopefully it will all be okay. We also saw the repair near the river,” shared Jamaica Velez whose son is in kindergarten.</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>AWAITING FOR FUNDING</strong></div><div><br/></div><p>The Department of Education in Central Visayas earlier said that disaster-affected schools will have to wait.</p><p>Regional Director Arturo Bayocot, in an interview with local reporters, said that they are awaiting for the Central Office’s priority list for projects funded under the General Appropriations Act.</p><p>“The list has not come out,” said Bayocot.</p><p>DepEd Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Service listed about 76 schools that were damaged by Typhoon Tino spanning across Central, Eastern and Western Visayas, as well as in the Negros Island Region, Zamboanga Peninsula and Northern Mindanao.</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><div><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/SOEs1FDjGsw?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span></strong><br/></div>

<p>Enrollment continues at Tiltilon Elementary School in Liloan, Cebu, one of the schools damaged by Tyhpoon Tino in 2025.</p>

Enrollment continues at Tiltilon Elementary School in Liloan, Cebu, one of the schools damaged by Tyhpoon Tino in 2025.

Cebu school hit by 'Tino' in 2025 still damaged, admin implements shifting classes

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Cebu school hit by 'Tino' in 2025 still damaged, admin implements shifting classes

Annie Perez

Published June 08, 2026 11:11 AM PHT

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Updated June 08, 2026 11:42 AM PHT

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