Ghost Student sa CCM?
Video has been deleted. CHED has already started an inquiry.
My previous post gathered a lot of comments and questions from people -- from students and alumni, to concerned citizens both local and national.
Marami sa mga bagay na naisulat ko ay hindi masyadong naunawaan ng marami dahil sa wikang ginamit ko kaya ang video ay ginawa namin sa wikang Filipino/Tagalog.
Let me give a quick background about the two other persons in the video, especially for those of us in the cities who may not imagine what college life in a rural community looks like.
The first person speaking in the video is Marlon Balictar. He graduated at the top of their batch as a BSEd major in Math (magna cum laude). I knew him as one of the best students I ever had in History class. He also sat in one of my Economics classes because they had very few meetings when they took the same subject. His desire for self-improvement is evident when he also asked to sit in my Remedial English class for English majors. I always prepared an extra copy of my grammar or vocabulary exercises because he wanted to take the quizzes with the English majors.
As you watch the video, note that he is a typical student in our town who needs to help his family BEFORE and AFTER classes in feeding farm animals, grazing their carabao and cows, helping dry rice -- just about anything that will help his family. His father also drives a tricycle. In order to further augment family income, he worked part time in our computer shop. All of this as he worked on his Bachelor’s degree.
The second person in the video is a recent BSEd major in English graduate (cum laude) who also happens to be the school paper’s Editor-in-Chief (EIC). She worked through her degree as a mother and wife. Despite a miscarriage during her last term with me, she continued to faithfully attend classes and submit well-prepared course requirements. I will write more about women students in community colleges in a future post.
Why the video? We must give life to the cliche that our youth are the future of our nation. We do not even need to give them a voice because as you will see in the video, they already have a voice. What we need to to do is prevent ourselves from muffling or suppressing their voice. As a former school paper adviser, that was what I did in order to give life to the provisions of our Constitution’s bill of rights and to the law on Campus Journalism. But that may be a topic for a future post.
For my part, just take note that in other schools, a student who has supposedly matriculated would be given a failing grade when teachers do not give them grades for failure to attend classes the entire term. A series of such offenses are recorded and dealt with accordingly in other schools. How has this been recorded and dealt with by the school? Have there been attempts to cover-up by the Administration and the Board of Trustees as they try to legitimize an unfair and wrong practice?
Right now, just listen to these two young graduates. Listen to the truth that they have been longing to express. Surely, the top graduates of the school were compelled to tell the truth. Otherwise, we end with a logical conclusion that the best that the school can produce are liars.
Again, this is a matter of public concern since a public institution run by taxpayers’ money is involved.
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“Silence about corruption and abuse of power is not only in itself unjust. Our silence, when we have the ability to speak, is in itself a cause of injustice.” -- Supreme Court Associate Justice Marvic Leonen
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