By Noel Punzalan/PNA
COTABATO CITY – Classes in all levels here resumed Tuesday, a day after the city joined the plebiscite for the ratification of the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) on Monday.
Johnny Balawag, city schools’ division administrative officer, said that public school heads were earlier advised to resume as soon as possible classes in elementary, secondary and tertiary levels in the city.
“Regular classes are to resume Tuesday,” he said.
This developed as two schools — the Notre Dame Village National High School and the Notre Dame Village Elementary School — are advised to postpone their periodical examinations due to an ongoing traffic rerouting scheme implemented along Shariff Kabunsuan Complex, the provisional seat of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao in this city.
The two schools are situated near the complex currently used by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) as a venue for election returns and canvassing of votes from this city’s 37 villages and that of Maguindanao province’s 36 municipalities.
Over a thousand teachers in this city were fielded as plebiscite committee members during Monday’s referendum in 33 voting centers, comprising 749 voting precincts and 374 clustered precincts, to serve the locality’s 113,751 registered voters.
Except for two bombing occurrences in the city on Sunday night and Monday morning that hurt no one, the Comelec said the conduct of the plebiscite here and in Maguindanao has been generally peaceful.
