Photo shows students at the Mary Perpetua E. Brioso National High School in Tigbao, Milagros Masbate finally returning to their classroom after the pandemic disrupted physical learning in the Philippines in 2020.

Release / Department of Education

 

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine National Police's office in the Ilocos-Pangasinan Region apologized to the Department of Education for what it described as the "apparent overreaction" by members of a Municipal Police Station in a public elementary school in Pangasinan for the first day of the pilot testing of face-to-face classes.

 

This comes after a Department of Education field report observed the "presence of uniformed personnel equipped with their issued firearm inside one of the pilot schools of limited face-to-face classes."

 

The cops in question were part of the security detail of a local government official who visited the school, the DepEd said. 

 

Full Story: https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2021/11/16/2141712/pnp-apologizes-bringing-long-firearms-elementary-school

 

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More idiocy and clownery... but what's new in that ? ????