Mayor Doctor’s ban is good for Burgos
Ed Pontaoe
23 July 2008
The ban on cell phone usage emanated from the Mayor’s office not the School District, because to impose such rule only the town executive have the mandated power and the manpower to enforce it.
The enforcement of this propriety bypasses the tenet on which Americans are accustomed with, the freedom of speech, which looking at it, wouldn’t pass muster in American classrooms. But, this is Burgos, the Philippines, not Cambria in California.
Mayor Doctor has every right to do what is right for his town. He has every right to enforce discipline, the missing link between lawlessness and peace and order. To maintain proper decorum, to enhance the education of the kids, the Mayor saw fit hand in hand with the school officials, that the use of this abused form to communicate should be controlled.
The accommodation of a one – a two – a three applied, is to adjust students to the new concept on things, is admirable. Give them a chance to refashion themselves to new marching orders. It could take awhile, but as pliant as them Filipinos, it’s a piece of cake.
Why not leave policy making to school officials? Policy on curriculum is fine, policy on regulation, on self-control should be left to the authorities, and the one mandated by law . . . Mayor Doctor.
It should be known, the Philippines, the respect of the law, the presence of an police officer is enough to calm things down, not like what’s happening this side of the pond where police hands are tied with all the bull you can throw at them, like police brutality and violation of the Constitution, wherein even seasoned school teachers are scared-stiff to come to school.
Betting against change going to happen, is like betting California not sliding into the Pacific when Andreas comes to visit.
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