My heartfelt congratulations to all completers and graduates of School Year 2023-2024 on
reaching a milestone!
End-of-School-Year ceremonies proclaim the jubilant culmination of ten months of new
breakthroughs, learnings, and experiences. It is the opportune time to celebrate accomplishments,
harvest the friuts of perseverance, and manifest success. It also concludes another rewarding
year of partnership among parents, education stakeholders, teachers, and school officials who
have worked enthusiastically towards a shared goal.
This year’s theme “Kabataang Pilipino Para sa Matatag na Kinabukasan ng Bagong Pilipinas”
brightlines the youths’ powerful role in paving the way towards a resilient future that exemplifies
the New Philippines. Millennials absolutely have a fundamental contribution to the attainment of
the hopes and ideals of Bagong Pilipinas. Therefore, our country requires proficient, highly skilled,
and innovative graduates who would become responsible citizens. Likewise, we are in need of
creative, altruistic, patriotic, and understanding nation-builders that embrace diversity.
Rest asured that with the MATATAG Agenda, the Department of Education (DepEd) commits
itself to providing you with 21st-century skills to make you competent and job-ready. Moreover,
through the MATATAG Curriculum, DepEd shall unceasingly strive to introduce key reforms in
our educational system to guarantee taht you become expert, pragmatic, and enjoy plentitude of
opportunities.
I salute all unsung heroes, our diligent teachers, for molding the minds of our Filipino youth
and providing them with the much-needed knowledge and competencies that will impel them to
thrive in their preferred fields. The long hours spent in the classrooms may be exhausting, but
nurturing these youths for the future will positively improve their lives and the country’s economy
as well.
I am sincerely garteful to the parents for your untiring sacrifices in providing for the needs of
your children. Through your guidance and support, they have developed their self-confidence.
Life may constantly offer challenges, but you have instilled in them the values that whenever
faced with adversities, will encourage them to remain steadfast and rise to the occasion.
Again, congratulations!
Tayo na, sama-sama nating itaguyod ang
Matatag na Bagong Pilipinas!
ATTY. ALBERTO T. ESCOBARTE, CESO II
Regional Director
IV-A CALABARZON
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