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Practice Makes Perfect

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   What is an earthquake ? An earthquake is a sudden, rapid shaking of the ground caused by the shifting of rocks deep underneath the earth’s surface. Earthquakes can cause fires, tsunamis, landslides or avalanches. While they can happen anywhere without warning.    While a destructive earthquake is happening, lifeprotecting actions must be taken immediately. There's no enough time to decide what should you do next, everyone must already know how to react appropriately. Even after an earthquake, further lifeprotecting actions such as emergency evacuation or first aid administration may be necessary; welltrained staff and students will guarantee that these crucial steps are taken as quickly as possible.    Earthquake drills and exercises play an extremely important role in our preparedness plan because they; 1) teach students, staff and parents how to respond to the complications of an actual earthquake, and 2) help individual to evaluate how well are the ...

Quality Education, Amidst a Pandemic?

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         The Department of Education (DepEd) managed to implement the "Blended Learning Method" as a new method of learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite this, millions of students are still able to enroll in the country this school year. But a lot of students are also unable to enroll because they do not have enough money or not ready to keep up with the new mode of study. The government chose to pursue the opening of classes without adequate equipment, preparation, and support.  Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, we felt the learning crisis in our country. The expensive but slow internet connection that the Philippines has is still a major problem for students in the country. Is it even possible for education to have a meaningful continuation in the country, amid problems that the government has not yet solved? The pandemic stopped the normal activity of every individual in different parts of the world.    Even before this momen...

Filipinos Are United And Resilient

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        There are things we do not expect and can prevent from happening. Such as various disasters like earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, tsunamis, wars, let us also include a pandemic and other catastrophic events that can take many lives. All we can do is prepare for it because nowadays the catastrophes are not expected by anyone. But we have to accept that this is already part of our lives and the only thing that can be done is to be prepare at all times.    Many have lost their lives, lost their loved ones, and property was damaged due to typhoon ondoy that hit the Philippines in September 2009 and followed by typhoon Yolanda in Leyte. There was also an earthquake in bohol and it will be remembered that there were wars in Zamboanga that even the inoccents were affected as well as the eruption of the Taal volcano and the pandemic that is taking place today. There are really a lot of things we don't expect like the ones mentio...