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Bethany Child Development Center
Bethany Child Development Center (BCDC) started as a dream by the founding Fathers wanting to see an institution that will incorporate Christian values into the mainstream of child education. That dream became a vision and twelve years later, we were at the crest of its reality.
The school is a legacy of faith by a mother – teacher who in her retiring years never lost sight of the vision to provide education for the next graduation. She provided the initial endowment fund from her retirement benefits to allow the school to start and evolve into an evangelical institution of learning in Zamboanga city.
Having been birthed in the year of the nineties, BCDC emerged to become a school committed to provide a center for development and transformational education for children in this city.
June 1990 was a significant year of small beginning. Bethany opened her portal for learning to the first 33 Grade I pupils on a rented facility at Don Alfaro Street, Tetuan.
Providentially, that same year, the secondary level was approved by the Department of Education, and every year thereafter, a class was added as each year level unfolded. Eventually the pioneer moved on to the High School and by the year 2000, the school graduated its first class of Senior students.
All through the years, the school have taught and served 4,790 students, graduated 496 Grade VI pupils and 208 High School students.
Bethany initially went through the first two lean years which made us reeling for a while, nevertheless we braved through and bounced back after a process of administrative reconfiguration to accommodate organization change.
Primarily it was the continuing patronage of Bethany parents, who believed in the mission of the school that enabled Bethany to carry on the vision to be at the cutting edge for the millennium.
With God’s providential care, Bethany will continue to be faithful to her educational philosophy to provide learning concepts which are not confined to mere intellectual acceptance of factual knowledge but to make education itself an experience for living.
Bethany believes that the whole educational process is not simply the mastery of prescribed body of knowledge but rather the development of competency to deal with the world, where the child is tasked to take an active role, not in competition with one another but in cooperation and collaboration.
True to her vision, mission and objective, Bethany maintains a low faculty student ratio to allow for a more meaningful and personal interaction and internalization of spiritual values that will bring about transformation of character. For we uphold this truth that: THE HEART OF EDUCATION IS THE EDUCATION OF THE HEART.
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