Comments on: The Beacon Academy

By: Ria

Ria — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 21:00:44 +0000

There is a school here in Canada called The Country Day School. Four parents started a one room schoolhouse in the 70’s and has expanded to a 100 acre property. It continues to be a non-profit organization. They are not an IB school however and their tuition is quite hefty.

By: Lannie

Lannie — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:21:32 +0000

MM, you are a great inspiration to me and I’m sure to many others out there. So much so that I’m actually preparing to sponsor a school feeding program (that or go on a ‘goods distribution’ effort) this coming Christmas when I visit the Philippines.

All the best!

By: Mila

Mila — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:39:09 +0000

Congratulations! Knowing the “lunatics” behind it, it’s wonderful to see the photos of the new campus.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:23:16 +0000

Congratulations and more power to you. In the future, I hope to send my son (only 18 months) to Beacon.

By: Maddie

Maddie — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 08:38:41 +0000

Wow! Grades 9-12! Congratulations and kudos to you and your fellow trustees for having the vision and the will to forge ahead. My husband and I were one of the fortunate ones to have gotten our admission request go through a few years ago. However, our daughter was already enrolled and we couldn’t get a refund for our tuition. So we did not push through with it. I do recall that one of our concerns then was high school as we didn’t want to be ‘forced’ to transfer our daughter to a trad school after years of being in a ‘progressive’ school. Now she is still enrolled in a trad school. Though she is happy and doing quite well, I am not fully ‘enrolled’ into the trad school system. Maybe it’s time to make a visit to Beacon again despite the long waitlist. Thank you for sharing this.

By: Enteng

Enteng — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 06:26:21 +0000

All the best MM!!! Congratulations!

By: MTriumph/DC

MTriumph/DC — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:22:18 +0000

Because of people like you, my hopes remain alive that someday, the Philippines will be respected again. Salamat! Your represent the best in Pinoy!

By: HD

HD — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 21:43:41 +0000

Congratulations MM! And best of luck. Ako din ay nakaraos ng pag aaral through scholarships. Salamat na lang sa mga taong kagaya ninyo.

By: giancarlo

giancarlo — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 17:34:54 +0000

Sir you and your group are an inspiration. I’ve dreamed of building a non-profit school for the longest time. It has been galvanized in some ways by sir Ken Robinson’s TED Talk seen here : https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html.

I hope this little dream of mine comes true. Hope we can be competitors-colleagues in the education industry someday.

Cheers!

By: bagito

bagito — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 17:20:00 +0000

AWESOME!!!