The LSJFI Office of Communication, Social Media and Public Relations (OCSMPR) has just created a digital system by which those who inquire through our school website www.liceodesanjacinto.foundation can get direct answers from you, the school department concerned.

It is worth disclosing that since February, 2020 when the website was launched, the Contact Page is just a single repository of received messages from those who send queries on various interests. In such a case, the administrator of the Contact Page would have to literally walk up to you (the officer of the department concerned) for the former to singlehandedly obtain from you the appropriate answer to the query and then, by himself again, compose the answer to the query sender as you dictated.
But now, the query messages in the Contact Page messaging box will go to the school website’s own email domain-portal (@liceodesanjacinto.foundation) and will integrate into your typical email addresses like those at @yahoo.com and @gmail.com. Then,  you do not need to bother opening several accounts one at a time, like for example joko123@yahoo.com and, next, joko6543@liceodesanjacinto.foundation, etc. Instead, you can view the messages sent to your @liceodesanjacinto.foundation using your @yahoo.com and then send reply via the latter.
This email account integration thus saves time and does away with inconvenience or even exasperation.

A series of hands-on training to develop the computer literacy of all the employees of Liceo de San Jacinto Foundation Incorporated (LSJFI) is being conducted by the Information Technology Department of the school. Started since July 20, 2020, the training covers a twenty-day modular instruction on Microsoft Office 2013 (Word, Excel and Powerpoint).

Mentored by Alvin dela Peña, head of the I.T. Department, the training is in line with the program of the administration to make the school upbeat with the modern digital tools and processes as it, at the same time,  introduces relevant and feasible social media platforms (website and app) into the campus.

This activity is compatible with the activity of the  school’s  Department of Communication, Social Media and Public Relations that is  presently keeping pace with the I.T. Department in making the campus literate in the use of applicable social media utilities.

While most private schools are struggling to contain enrolment shortfalls, Liceo de San Jacinto Foundation Inc. (LSJFI) is enjoying the pleasant headache of how to manage excess enrolees as fear of the contagion continues to sweep its market in Ticao Island, Masbate.
Parents interviewed by this website spoke of their uncertainty. “ Why should we risk our children in Bicol when Liceo is here?” posed one in Tigaonon, noting that many students from Monreal have either decided to change course and transfer to Liceo or cherry-pick subjects that will be honoured in Bicol when they move back to Bicol again.
“We used to have a peak of 500-plus enrolees for the first semester, but it appears that enrolees may well run upwards to 700 hundred students,” school registrar Michelle M. Ternal told this website after school managers combed the spiralling numbers of entrance examination takers.
The total of examination takers has thus far reached 824 as of last week, and is expected to still rise as the school continues to explore its capacity with social distancing in mind.
According to LSJFI chief of staff Noe C. Esparrago, the school can only accommodate 70% of applicants who have BSEd Major in English, BSEd Major in Mathematics, BSEd Major in Pilipino, BS in Crimininal Justice Education, AB Major in Political Science, and its latest offering, BS in Industrial Security Management, now in its second year on board.
The upsurge is not only in the tertiary department: The Grade 7 enlistment for the Junior High had to ground to a halt after the 150 seats available for Grade 7 enrolees were swallowed in less than two weeks of what was initially viewed by school officials as a soft opening.
“This is not what we had in mind,” said JHs principal and school vice-president Dr. Monina S. Moya. “We thought that it would be slow and easy, and spread over two months,” she added.
What happened was that there was a rush to enlist, take entrance examinations, and enrol. With the Aug. 24 projected opening of classes still almost two months away, almost 1,300 college students in the four towns of Ticao have already signified their desire to resume schooling.
The figure is almost 70% already of the projected capacity of the school using a modular method and the assumption of a once-a-week face-to-face classes.
“Nonetheless, the situation is still evolving and the actual picture of how the school will operate shall depend on many factors, some of which are still unclear,” stated Dr. Penelope B. Bagobe who has been at the helm of the school for the last eight year.

By Ike Arevalo