October 1, 2013
via email
Dear Ms. Toni and Board Members,
My heartfelt gratitude for extending help to our deaf
students through the books you have given us.
Although we were not expecting too much, the Lord has been good to us
with the two shipments you have sent. (It turned out to be a book-day
celebration!)
Please be sure that we value this partnership in
educating our deaf and in promoting their cause. I also thank you for inviting Chito Agapito
to your recent board meeting. I consider it yet another warm gesture notable of
your group (foundation). I just wish I was there to have listened, responded
and laughed with you all. By God’s grace, I look forward to greet you
personally this December.
Chito presented to me the matters taken up on your
meeting, and again I thank you for including our school on your latest project
of providing electronic gadgets relevant to education. As much as that is a “tempting”
opportunity, it would rather be fair for us to say that another good Samaritan
has awarded our school with a printer and some livelihood materials for baking.
So we thought that the new funds might instead benefit other schools or
libraries that need new electronic equipment. Not to mention, Chito has also
donated her used monitor and laptop to our school before she left. Being a
small population, we honestly thought this would be sufficient for our
operations for now.
Having said this, we would also like to let you know that
the flurry of books you have sent us would be sure to serve our academic
intervention goals for the next two years. Kindly understand that we are not
refusing the blessings of more shipments from your end, but we also thought
that the next boxes might benefit more schools. Your thoughts on that we of course respect. As
of the moment, our students are in the pre-reading and beginner reader’s level.
Perhaps it would take a considerable period of time to develop our deaf
students from beginning to dependent to independent reading. The books that you have given would provide
good intervention for two years or so.
Although it should be noted that reading really is a high literacy
skill, and that our teachers are integrating the use of books in their selected
subjects.
The classroom library and subject-reading integration
program has just been started by our teachers. We hope to come up with the
earliest assessment by the end of the third grading period. In the meantime, we
are furnishing you with a copy of the General Literacy and Competencies
Assessment Report as of Summer 2012-2013, which Chito has already presented to
you. Attached is also a copy of the presentation Chito has made regarding
CBDA’s accomplishments and new challenges.
On behalf of all the students, teachers and parents of
CBDA, thank you and more power!
Yours truly,
Carol
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