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In
1969, what was conceived to be the first public high school in
Parañaque came to reality. Behind all these was a woman,
Mrs. Lourdes
M. Bernabe who was then First lady of this town. Like any mother
looking after the welfare of her children, she railed with the parents
of the Parañaque youths for the equally enthusiastic people
in
education; Parañaque opened a great opportunity for those
below the
poverty level to improve their livelihood and their social
class.
Mayor
Florencio B. Bernabe rented the Nery Building in Kabihasnan to
accommodate 512 youngsters, which comprised the first year high school.
Many out-0f-school youths found the much awaited chance to get back to
school.
With
only 19 teachers including those in the administration, the only public
high school in Parañaque began in operation.
Notwithstanding
the many problems it met in its formative years, the school carried on.
More and more enrollees came in each year, thus it sought transfer in
1973 to a new building --- its own in Sucat, Parañaque. The
building
was two-storey structure located in a barren field along the stretch of
rough and dusty Sucat Road. A good site, they believed. Year after
year, buildings, houses, markets, theaters and rows of stores and food
chains were built here-a sign that this area had promises of a good
fortune and progress.
PMHS
owes it predecessors, a quality
uniquely, tagged as a reformatory school for having accepted so
–
called “erring students” who had been dropped or
advised forced to
transfer by some other schools – this school had graduated
not just a
handful of this kind. Some would even come back to visit, grateful that
they had found a school which had kept them in its portals and given
them the chance to find themselves during those confusing years. Not
sad but happy about being dubbed reformatory ground for the wayward and
those in the blacklist, the school also prides itself for having its
first principal, Mrs. Angelina Samson, who herself is an institute of
discipline. [Read More]
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