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With a gleeful heart I congratulate the Graduating Class of School Year 2010 – 2011!

Your class gives honor, pride and happiness to your parents, teachers and community people who have been walking by your side as you take the challenging road towards acquiring quality education and possessing lifelong learning skills and desirable values.

Everybody is now looking at you as young productive citizens who will not only participate but lead in innovating, creating and implementing worthwhile activities for the development of your respective communities.

With the values and competence that you have obtained, your DepED family is confident that you can now contribute relevant ideas, actions and solutions that can bring about positive change in our society.

JONATHAN S DELA PEÑA

OIC, Schools Division Superintendent

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MESSAGE

With your elementary graduation, you have proven that you work hard and care for your education. Of course, you have to thank your families, teachers, and mentors who have helped you along the way.

The theme for this year’s Graduation Rites, “The Graduate: A Partner Towards Transformational Society, An Answer To Societal Change” simply tells us that you are the hope and future of this country. As our very own 2009 CNN Hero of the Year, Efren Pinaflorida, would say, “You are the change that you dream and I am the change that I dream. Collectively, we are the change that this world needs to be.”

Remember, this is only the beginning of a long journey of learning to prepare you for life’s challenges. Continue to do your best in high school and in everything you aspire for in life. May your knowledge, values, skills and talent acquired through education help us grow and prosper as a nation.

Congratulation and my best wishes for a bright and happy future.

LUZ S. ALMEDA, Ph.D., CESO III

Regional Director

DepED Region X

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I was once a student like you when I experienced the hardships in life. As I stand in front of you now, I've been recalling all the struggles and sacrifices I had encountered before achieving to what I am now today. I came from a poor family which my parents' income belongs below poverty line, however it did not hinder me to pursue my studies for I wanted to alleviate our family from financial crisis. Trials always attacked me in the middle of my journey to success and had weakened me gradually. But I thanked the Lord for pouring me more strength always at that time so I did not fall and stumble. I have finished my Bachelor's degree and landed a good job immediately after graduation.

The importance of education is really very clear for without it, I could not have given the opportunity to stand here in front you as a guest speaker in your Graduation Day. It is a clear evidence of my success though failures will never be absent in every endeavor, however, I am proud to say that I SUCCEED and have started helping my family step higher from the poverty line. The theme for this 2010 Closing Exercises, "Education: Changing Lives (Edukasyon ang Solusyon) is really very true for it is a key to open the gate of the outside world which have greater opportunities to succeed. Our world will stay stagnant and far to being progressive if all people living have no knowledge to perform their responsibilities. For all of us have different task to do to build a progressive and productive nation.

Education is basically important for two reasons according to Maulana Wahiduddin Khan. "The first is the training of a human mind which is not complete without education. Education makes a man a right thinker". Our teachers in the school trained us to become a right thinker so that as we continue our game we can manage decision-making process. It is clearly stated that a human being who has not gone to school is not in their proper sense until he is educated. I can remember our neighbor who was called by her friend as ignorant for she made wrong decisions always. Do you want to be called ignorant? I know your answer is a big no!
The second reason for the importance of education is that only through the attainment of education, man is enabled to receive information from the external world; to acquaint himself with past history and receive information regarding the present. Without education, man is though in a closed-room and with education he finds himself in a room with all it's windows open towards outside world. Thus, making our lives change for the better.
Graduation ceremony marks one stage of person's life to another. "Your next venture in the real world begins today, wherever you go, always bring your own sunshine to light the world. Do not be easily discourage as trials come on your way because those will help you become even smoother than before. Think always all the advantages and opportunities that may be offered to you when you are a degree holder already. Job competition is very high in our world today so be equipped with all the appropriate skills and knowledge required. But do not forget to practice and live a set of good moral values in life for that will be you ticket to the good life that awaits you in the real world and the key to change the lives of the people living on it.

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Time strides with leaps and bounds that our six-year stay in this school has finally come to an end. For us graduates parting from our Alma Mater is a nostalgic climax we can never forget. It is here in this school that we are molded. It is here where we met our friends as well as our enemies, shared with joys and laughters, experienced love and sorrows, success and failures and many other changes that occur in our lives.

Graduation doesn't mean triumph, it implies responsibility and burden to us so we should think of a way to surmount lifes innumerable struggle to build a better tomorrow.

We should think that graduation does not hold a complete bright promise. It grims along a few grim prospects, fear of the uncertain future. It is not the end of struggle but a prelude to an even tougher competition that is the battle to survive in the real world.

It is then imperative that we arm ourselves for this battle while still we can. We should strive hard to make good with our studies. We should aim high for there is no plave in this world for under achievers. This is for us graduates for we still have the choice. There is no turning back for us. We have to face the world that awaits us and see for ourselves what it holds in store.

Graduation day is therefore a mixture of happiness and sadness It is the most awaited moment for all of us. After all the hardships and struggles we had experienced, the six years of endeavors is almost over without being noticed. Tackling all the problems in the school with painstaking experiments, researches and assignments we had encountered are now about to be through.

We will then express our heartfelt gratitude to our teachers who have imparted their knowledge to us. We will leave this school equipped with skills and moral values. To the teachers, who molded and trained us with patience and sacrifices - thank you so much.

To our parents, their guidance and encouragement make us what we are today. What we have achieved now, is just an inception of our success or failure in any undertakings is determined by the amount of preparation one put into it.

To bid goodbye to this place I hold so dear - Yes, but to my treasured memories of my beloved school, NEVER.

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