BCS RALLY. I was really dismayed at how the parents of pupils and the teachers at Buenlag Central School in Calasiao reacted against the school principal. They held a picket rally and even locked the school gate to prevent their children from attending their classes.

I could’ve understood the staging of the rally since I went to UP where rallies are nothing unusual. However, to tell your kids not to go to school because the principal, allegedly, has some money-making issues, that I can not understand.

The complaint against the principal should’ve been faced squarely, without involving the children. The rally and the gate-locking acts may have demonstrated the protest but these also showed that there was little concern for the welfare of the kids. So what was all the protest about if not for the welfare of the children?

In UP Baguio, at least when I was there, we never did try to lock up the university nor was there ever any pressure on anyone to join a rally and not attend their classes. There were always options. With the BCS, the parents didn’t provide their kids any option. I’m sure many of the pupils would’ve wanted to go to school and attend their classes. Besides, their teachers were present. – Johanne Macob

 

INSENSITIVE EMPLOYEE. Here’s a lesson for closet gay government employees. Thou shall not cry your monologues being heard by others during break-up with a beloved.

This honorable and decent-looking male employee of a government-owned hospital is often the object of banter, of newsmen included, during light moments as they recall his reactions to his personal dramas, with matching overflowing tears while on the phone, every time he is heart-broken with his lovers.

The guy also had been the subject of blind items too in radio commentary programs for being indifferent when some newsmen or their immediate relatives confined in the hospital he works with begin to tell him of financial hardship.

“Ay wala akong alam dyan,” was his response, not realizing that all that they ask of him is to show how anyone can avail of some discounts. The guy is a ranking officer in the hospital and had worked with several top politicos in Pangasinan.

No wonder this guy is seen all by himself dining in a cheap fastfood. Nobody wants his company and bad attitude is the reason, sources say.

He, too, finally fell out of grace of a top hospital boss. Reason? He was too quick in accompanying an OIC to meet some top elected officials of a city when the regular boss was meted a preventive suspension order, only to find out that the suspension would only last lasted for four days or so.

“Gungona to ta maong ya man sipsip pero aliwan matulong,” a radio commentator said.—Tita Roces

 

TRADING INFECTED SHELFFISH. Red tide is still on in Western Pangasinan. But what’s this we heard that shellfishes from western Pangasinan are being continuously unloaded  by passenger mini-buses somewhere in Binmaley very early mornings  in utter disregard of the shellfish ban imposed by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources.

Proofs that traders as well as fish farmers are deliberately defying the ban in conspiracy with some LGU officials but at the expense of public health, were the interceptions of 22 sacks of mussels and another three sacks of the same in Dagupan just a few days of each other.

Isn’t the death of one and the hospitalization of  32 others  after feasting on contaminated mussels enough reason for authorities to restrict and closely monitor the movement of shellfishes?  Are LGU officers waiting for another victim before they finally make a move to stop the gathering, shipment, sale and consumption of this infected item? – Leonardo Micua

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