Division Superintendent Dela Peña • 3, ASDS Dael

It is with jubilation and pleasure that I personally convey my profound felicitations to all the academic awardees, completers and graduates of School Year 2021-2022. Equal amounts of felicitations also go to the proud mentors, school heads, and non-teaching personnel who inaudibly labored much in order to mold the minds of these learners entrusted to them. Worthy of hearty congratulations also are the proud parents and guardians and those loved ones of our graduates and completers. This batch of graduates and completers for School Year 2021-2022 emerged victorious that despite COVID-19 pandemic they had successfully hurdled the rigors on the complexities of acquiring learning for it is unavoidable to embrace the current landscape on the delivery of education. School Year 2021-2022 had been another school year of dedication and passion for all school heads, teachers, learners, non-teaching personnel, parents and guardians in coping with the learning delivery modality to effectively deliver the learning competencies and other essential mandates. Consequently, the support and motivation of parents towards the rocky roads to victory challenged with the global health crisis have grandiosely pitched in to this moment of your memorable day, your graduation or completion. Reminiscing on the moment when you first set your foot at the very doorstep of the school, you had in mind that someday, you will finish the race. Now is the time. Moving up and graduation ceremonies signal the success of yourselves and the people behind you. It is another mark in the history of your lives where everybody looks up as these added another feather of your respective caps. My dear completers and graduates, I am one with you and your respective families in this grand celebration of your lives. With it, make your respective schools proud of you. To the proud parents, accept my heartfelt gratitude for you have manifested your enthusiasm and charisma for having been active partners of the Schools Division of Misamis Oriental in the implementation of distance learning. Your support for this School Year 2021-2022 is a sparkling reflection of the unconditional love you bestowed to the learners through the years. Undoubtedly, you have been the great contributors in the success that these students/learners have achieved now. My special commendations to all the school administrators, teaching and non-teaching personnel and others for providing the unparalleled services and the proactive love and care for the learners that were best echoed in this year’s theme “K to 12 Graduates: Pursuing Dreams and Fostering Resilience in the Face of Adversity”. Truly, you have given and delivered quality education to all the completers and graduates. To all the completers and graduates, carry on the good ideals and teachings from your teachers that were imparted to you as these are the best guiding lights as you face another endeavors in your lives. Congratulations.

My warm greetings to everybody!

Allow me to begin by recognizing all our school heads, teaching and non- teaching staff, parents, families of our graduates and completers, our internal and external stakeholders for being the foundation and support system of the Department of Education Jasaan South District, Misamis Oriental. The past years and months have been tough and full of challenges to everybody. We can still fully remember the day when we shifted to blended learning. At first, there were several questions “how will it work?” “will the students be able to focus?” “will the teachers make it?” “how will the students learn?”. Due to the modular and online classes, we made our living room as our classroom wearing the pajamas as our uniform, eating our meals while attending classes and many more. Amidst all, we ended victorious but if there is one thing good brought by the pandemic to our learners, it is the attitude of being resilient which allow students to not be afraid of challenges that may come into and to effectively deal with difficult circumstances. Being resilient cannot be done by the learners alone, they need social networks, they need others to shape their beliefs and identity for this is also the very essence of education. Whatever life may bring, education must continue as Albert Einstein once said and I quote “Learn from yesterday, live for today and hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” What and how we view ourselves are structured with what we learn in school. After all, the world is still a safe place to live. Navigate this competitive world with determination and perseverance and by doing so, you will be able to tackle problems and cope with the emotional challenges in school and in life, true to this year’s graduation theme – K to 12 Graduates: Pursuing Dreams and Fostering Resilience in the Face of Adversity. Continue with what you have started and make it sure that whatever adversities in life, still you can make it to the finish line. Finally, congratulations to all of you, you have worked hard, you deserve to be proud of this achievement and to take this opportunity to celebrate together with your family. GOD BLESS AND GOOD HEALTH TO

EVERYBODY