Mabalacat LGU acquires netbooks for t each er s
MABALACAT CITY — The city government here has acquired netbooks which will be used as educational equipment by public school teacher s.
City Administrator Rosano Paquia said that the 1,193 brand new Lenovo laptop computers will be distributed and issued to the teachers during a simple ceremony at the city hall today.
Mayor Crisostomo Garbo will lead the ceremonial distribution of the netbooks worth P18 million.
Paquia said the mayor vowed to provide the gadgets to the teachers last December under the program of the Local School Board.
The city government’s laptop program for public school teachers earned praises from netizens all over the country.
Thousands of Facebook subscribers lauded the city government and the mayor for the Local School Board project.
The FB post of the Mabalacat City News showing the arrival and actual delivery of the gadgets reached almost 8,000 likes as of yesterday afternoon.
A Facebook comment posted by Visaminda Orboda, a resident of Compostela Valley, asked if the government will also provide laptops to teachers in their place. Wow! Compostela Valley meron din? Sana magkaroon din kami ng laptop mga public school teachers (Wow! Compostela Valley will have theirs too? We hope we public teachers can have ours too).”
Janeth Delgado, a teacher from Paranaque, congratulated the Mabalacat City teachers. “Sana tularan ang mayor ninyo ng ibang mayors sa buong Pilipinas. Malaking tulong yan sa mga teachers lalo na sa mga batang tinuturuan natin (We other mayors in the country will emulate your mayor. What he did is a big help to teachers and children we t each ) .”
Ericka Pacleb of Rosales, Pangasinan stated “Ang galing ni mayor (Garbo). Sana sa Rosales din po.”
Apparently daring the officials of Olongapo, Mac Monsalud Lazara stressed in his comment “Hoy Olongapo, anon a?!”