"VISITATION OF THE GODS"

We had our ESC/FAPE certification today, November 22. It is a Saturday but all of the school community including some parents are sweating it out with Ma'am Pearly, S. Agnes and Ma'am Flor. All in all the experience was indeed very educational, though the preparation really tested the very ends of our patience.

The certifiers arrived quite early barely missing the first period. After introducing themselves to us and the teachers, they went right away to observing classes. English I, Math I and Chemistry were the subjects being observed. The feedback after the observation was very favorable. It was heart warming after all the efforts that the teacher had made just to perfect the implementation of the RVM pedagogy.

Afterwards, the trio went around visiting some of our facilities. There were a lot of comments for the Science laboratory in as much as we lack one more; However, what we lack for the Science laboratory we amply compensated in the Library, Speech laboratory, the Computer laboratory, the Guidance and the CL office. Facilities-wise, Mrs. Quinones was impressed, she even suggested why not raise the tuition fee to compensate for what the school is providing her students.

In the afternoon, interviews with the members of the school community were conducted. All were excited and were looking forward to really meeting the certifiers up close and personal. In the middle of the interview though, I lost my cool because some first year students were very noisy-I went to the extent of boxing one. That was borne out of frustration. Some of our students just could not really contained their foolishness and stupidity. Everything went well though.

Things were all finished at around four in the afternoon. Amidst gusty winds and sudden heavy downpour, the certifiers left equally fulfilled as we do feel this afternoon!