Notre Dame Of Greater Manila

[merryjazz]

my child is currently studying here in notre dame and we are happy that my child is enjoying his stay in this school. Academic wise, Notre has a very good curriculum. Mabilis ang phasing ng turo pero nakaka-catch up naman ang kids. Mas advance nga sila compared to other catholic schools. and their fund raising activities are very minimal. and mind you, NDGM is not forcing their students to give...all are voluntary kaya hindi nakaka-stress. walang minus kapag hindi ka nag-bigay hehehe.... my child likes this school and so with me.

[westbound17]

i was once a damer, Abraham section ko adviser namin si Ms. Mejia.

is she still teaching?

[merryjazz]

^I am not familiar with her name. My child is still in gradeschool kaya konti pa lang ang teachers na kilala ko...

[fetch dickson]

May thread pala ang ndgm! I used to study here from elementary hanggang high school. Exclusive for boys pa to nung elem then nung nag hs na, may girls na.

Ayoko sabihin sections ko baka mahulaan kung sino ko.

Eto isa, Daniel ako nung 1st year.

[fetch dickson]

i was once a damer, Abraham section ko adviser namin si Ms. Mejia.

is she still teaching?

Ms Mejia, afaik, she was my teacher in T.H.E. nung hs.

[Lejander]

Count me in! Proud Notre Damer here, HS Batch 2001...

[Lejander]

May thread pala ang ndgm! I used to study here from elementary hanggang high school. Exclusive for boys pa to nung elem then nung nag hs na, may girls na.

Ayoko sabihin sections ko baka mahulaan kung sino ko.

Eto isa, Daniel ako nung 1st year.

Why do I have a bad feeling na magkaklase tayo nung first year? Haha!

[engineerban]

kamiss ng Notre...

Huling silip ko sa Notre eh puro renovations. *** kinder nga, may pa-powerpoint nang nalalaman eh. Mahal ko di ang Notre. It honed me to become successful as early as elementary. Halos lahat nga ng mga kaklase ko noong GS, puro taga UP/Ateneo/LaSalle na. The rest ng batch, almost tga UST. hehe

[nybee]

Damers! Batch 2005

[creech]

si Mr. De Luna!....si Mr. De Luna!....


practice lang...





- batch 93

[santaclaus]

that's only in UPD sir, not counted pa po ang other campuses ng UP. and also those who passed in UST, ADMU and DLSU.
and ganun naman po talaga ang typical passsing rates ng most good secondary schools.

so ok pa din naman. and nung linabas ng DECS yung top performers sa NSAT, Notre was in 30th place, so not bad considering there are hundreds of secondary schools in the country at ganun kadami ang estudyante nya compared to other schools na 2-4 sections lang kaya malamang mas mataas ang place.

Last time I cheked , Less than 50 goes to the top 4 schools

The 300+ na natira, tinatapon na sa UE, Mapua, CSB, San Sebastian, Lyceum, Ama at kung ano ano pang community colleges dyan.

80% of its graduates goes to call centers, and nasa bottom level pa din even with 5-10 years of service. May alam pa ako sa batch namin tricycle driver na lang ngayon.

wala man lang sa top 300 schools ng bansa ang notre dame.

Pinupukpok ng transformers sa ulo ang bata? Ganyan ba ka primitive ang mga professors ng institution na ito? Saan bang community college nagtapos yang mga teachers na yan? Puro kurakot kasi ang mga OMI kaya walang ma hire na matinong educators.

Bakit magsasayang ng pera at future ng kabataan kung kaya namang pag aralin sa LSGH, Phil. Science, UP hs, ADMU hs, ICA atbp matitinong schools ang anak nyo kaysa sa basurang school na to.

[xctrekker]

Alumni din ako ng Notre and I'm probably the oldest person in this thread. (Back in our day, it was NDM, not NDGM so pls bear with me if I use this acronym.)

Years back, I met a batchmate who still lives in Kalookan and he told me that compared to our time, NDM was has gone to the dogs. No, he wouldn't send his children there either. It was from him that I learned that NDM had gone coed. I couldn't believe it. And my first question was, "Bakit, wala na ba ang OLGA?" "Yung La Consolacion?"

The way they see it, naging commercialized na rin ang NDM. Pera-pera na lang daw ang labanan. I didn't know what to say to that.

To the young Damers here, I won't say the NDGM you went through is bad. Nandyan na yan eh. Its just different from the NDM that we knew. I guess we lived and studied in a simpler time. So by way of illustration (and not to say that it was better) here's a snapshot of the NDM we knew.

-The directors were Irish-American OMI priests- until late high school when a Mexican OMI priest took over. The Americans were quite liberal but the Mexican was a disciplinarian (ugaling Kastila). The Americans can breeze through a Mass in less than an hour because their sermons were short and straight to the point.

-All our books except for Social Studies and Pilipino were imported, hardbound American books. Di pa uso newsprint noon. Ang bigat na ng bags namin noon.

-There was only the Elementary & HS buildings, the canteen & Gym back then. NDM seemed so big and spacious back then. The areas surrounding NDM were mostly residential, quiet and definitely not as dense and crowded like today.

-Noong grade school, we were reading about things and people American like Johnny Appleseed, Paul Revere, Abe Lincoln, George Washington, Fr. Junipero Serra, the Pony Express, the Sioux, Iroquois, etc.

-Speaking English on campus was expected and "encouraged". If a teacher asked a question in English, whether inside the classroom or not, whether there are classes or not, better do your darn best to show that you're not wasting your parents' money by answering back in clear, grammatically-correct English.

Those were the days.

[TGODtm]

Hello Damers, haha grad ako ng batch '12