DepEd braces for remote enrollment

The Department of Education (DepEd) is all set to hold the first-ever remote enrollment starting today, looking out for the safety of teachers as well as learners while ensuring that all children would be enrolled for school year 2020-2021.

DepEd says the remote enrollment will do away with parents and school children having to go to their respective schools to enroll, and allows the education department to comply with the physical distancing and health standards set by the Department of Health (DOH and the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF).

Under the remote enrollment system, instead of parents and students going to schools, class advisers from the previous school year will contact the parents and do the enrollment of the individual students.

DepEd said that parents or guardians of the learners can also contact

the class advisers of their children, to ensure the enrollment of their child on the contact numbers provided by the individual public school for the enrollment process.

DepEd said it has designated an enrollment focal person to receive calls and answer queries of parents of kindergarten pupils, transferees, Balik-Aral, and Alternative Learning System learners in each public school.

DepEd field offices will come out with the contact information of schools in their jurisdiction.

For queries and clarifications regarding enrollment and other initiatives of DepEd for the upcoming school year, please call (02) 8636-1663; (02) 8633-1942; 0919-456-0027; 0995-921-8461; or email action@deped.gov.ph.

The public can also visit www.deped.gov.ph/obe-be for frequently asked questions about SY 2020-2021.

KJ ROSALES A health worker disinfects a classroom of the M. Hizon Elementary School in Manila on Saturday to prepare for the start of enrollment today. While the listup is by remote for the first two weeks, schools without internet access will hold physical or face-to-face enrollment.