A city ordinance regulating all school organizations, particularly fraternities in elementary and high schools in Dagupan City is in place.

The Sanggunian Panlungsod finally decided to pass the ordinance last Monday after the barangay captain of Bonuan Boquig, Carinio Aquino, related to the city council the series of mischief committed by a fraternity at the Bonuan Boquig National High School in his barangay.

He said he already conducted series of dialogues with the officers and members of the fraternity and appealed to them to stop their being troublesome but that this simply fell on deaf ears.

Aquino said all the members of the fraternity in the school burned their middle fingers as a sign of their affinity with the fraternity.

This prompted Councilor Jose Netu Tamayo to propose the ordinance regulating all student organizations in the elementary and high school levels.

A provision in the ordinance required that the name of the organization shall carry with it the words “student’s club or organization,” and that all clubs to be accredited must have  at least four members.

Tamayo said the ordinance will require students’ organization or club be formed only for community development or school cleanliness, sports and or in academic concerns and one adviser shall be named for each club or organization.

The students’ club will also be required to submit names of officers and members of the organization to the school principal and the barangay where the school is located.

 Fines are stipulated for violation of the ordinance not only by the students but by their parents as well for failing in their responsibility to monitor and discipline their children. — AQL

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