REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
CARAGA ADMINISTRATIVE REGION
DIVISION OF AGUSAN DEL NORTE
J. Rosales Avenue, Butuan City

Dear Graduates:

CONGRATULATIONS! You did it. You all accomplished one

of the major early milestones of your lives: Your
GRADUATION. This is a major step in the journey of your lives,
one that should be recognized for its immense significance. It is
an act not only of personal commitment, but also one of your
prides. You all worked hard to get to this day, and your work did
not go to waste.

Always bear in mind that your graduation should serve as a

launching point, projecting you to wherever your futures are
meant to take you, whether you land yourselves a career, take up
a trade, or continue your education at college or
Vocational/technical School. There is no reason you will fear facing your future as this year’s theme says”
Unity in Diversity, Quality Education for All,” gives all of you a fervent hope that you have to keep
pushing and achieve your dreams because you deserve it.

As it t has always been said and believed that diversity is the art of thinking independently together. The
word gives us a definition that actually goes beyond differences but highlights how variety of ideas mold a
stronger group or community.
It is with this principle that we embrace diversity inside schools while offering just opportunities for all. It
is with this truth that we emphasize the beauty of differences into forging unity.
I believe that diversity in unity starts in schools – the training ground of the young minds. How schools
serve as a melting pot of different ideas, beliefs, practices and perspectives and yet still thrive into producing
quality graduates is only a testament how inclusive and indiscriminate quality education would be of help
to the community outside the school grounds. How schools are accepting differences and yet still gather
these children into fulfilling the academes’ visions and missions is a very powerful image that reflects the
strength of a collective action regardless of the differences. This is not only called compromise; it is called
unity.
It is again the time of the year when we send pupils and students into a more complex battleground. These
young minds whom we have trained hard inside the four corners of the classrooms are only a reflection of
the kind of education we are offering. Going out from our embrace, these graduates will one day integrate
to the real world and make themselves contributors and catalysts of change in the communities where they
belong. And because we have instilled in them the power of making choices and becoming agents of unity
amidst diversity, we as well have already become a factory of good deeds in the world.
To the graduates, continue to show the world of the real power of education. It is transformative. It is
integrative. It is evaluative.
Congratulations and God bless us all!

(SGD.) FELISA G. LARANJO, PhD.

OIC-Assistant Schools Division Superintendent