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CAN'T WAIT!

This is going to be a very exciting event. Some friends I haven't seen since we graduated in 1980 have been talking on Fb, and we are all thrilled at the thought of actually seeing each other!
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Jeannie, Batch 80
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HUMBLE BEGINNING..
Kalawaan Elementary School is one of the five schools comprising School District II, Pasig II. It is the youngest and formerly the smallest school in the district in terms of school population. Presently, the school owns 3,850 sq. m. lot purchased by the local government of Pasig in two instances. The 2,000 sq. m. lot, a rice field was first acquired in 1957 from the late Nicolas Cuevas. Then in 1974, the local government purchased from the heirs of former Congressman Rufino Javier the adjoining rice field measuring 1,850 sq. m.
Barangay Kalawaan was formerly a sitio of San Joaquin. In the early 60’s Barangay Kalawaan had no school of its own. The school children in the place had to study in San Joaquin Elem. School for their primary grades and complete their intermediate grades at Bambang Elem. School. Some studied at Pateros Elementary School, which was quite far from Kalawaan. The distance of this place from afore stated school was aggravated by the absence of either concrete or asphalted road leading to San Joaquin at that time. The barrio folks and the school children had to travel by foot passing through the narrow and unlighted pathways along the banks of the Pasig River.
They even had to pass a wooden bridge built across the Daang Paa Creek, by the community people which almost always was overflowing during the rainy season. The current in this creek was so swift during typhoon and caused danger to the lives of the community people most especially to the school children. However, prior to every rainy season the community folks had their bayanihan. Men gathered shells and other filling materials from the nearby Pasig River to elevate the pathways leading to San Joaquin. They also cut down tall grasses growing along the pathways. While women on the other hand prepared the snacks of these workers.
Aware of the hardship and hazards on the lives of the community people, the barrio officials at that time made representation to the municipal government of Pasig requesting for the establishment of an elementary school in this place.
In 1962, the municipal government of Pasig, then headed by Hon. Emiliano R. Caruncho Jr. heeded to the request of the barrio officials of Kalawaan. At first classes were organized and house on rented houses. The municipal government of Pasig paid for the rental of these rented houses used as classrooms.
From Sitio to Barrio


Fortunately, on April 4, 1964, Kalawaan became a barrio through the untiring efforts of the barrio officials headed by Melencio Tuazon. In the same year, the first school building was built on the 2,000 sq. m. lot purchased by the municipal government of Pasig for the people of Kalawaan from the late Nicolas Cuevas.
The one-storey semi-permanent PRE-FAB building with two (2) classrooms was first constructed funded by the municipal government of Pasig, through the unceasing efforts of the barangay officials. The construction and completion of the said building brought joy an happiness to the hearts and minds of the community people, since their long cherish dream to have a school in Kalawaan became a reality.
Thereafter, classes held in rented houses were transferred to the newly constructed building. So, Kalawaan Elementary School comes now to existence and continue serving the educational needs of the youth in the area. As years passed by, the school population increased gradually, thus additional classrooms became a necessity.
