Oh Blog,
The STUDENT COUNCIL in Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Marikina is absent. I was very surprised (shocked?) to know that the school does not allow any centralized student body to be organized. "Why?!" I was asking this question a hundred times to my students. I got these answers:
1) The school administration has banned the formation of student council when a group of BS Accountancy students picketted infront of the Marikina City Hall.
2) They do not want to incorporate the students in its over-all academic and administrative development goals.
3) They are overly afraid to allow student council for it will make it vulnerable to student scrutiny.
4) They think that students are not capable of handling such organization - that is, lack of sense of leadership, responsibility...intellectual ability (that's the worst of all that I have heard).
I was very disappointed to hear such words. F.Y.I., I was deeply involved in campus politics during my college years. In fact, I still visit my political party in University of Santo Tomas every now and then. That makes me feel boiled of the ironic situations - of highly political and highly apolitical environment.
Whenever we brought up the issue of deprivation of student council formation, I just quote them the three very important provisions:
1) "The right of the people, including those employed in the public and private sectors, to form unions, associations, or societies for purposes not contrary to law shall not be abridged."
Article III, Section 8, 1987 Philippine Constitution
The STUDENT COUNCIL in Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Marikina is absent. I was very surprised (shocked?) to know that the school does not allow any centralized student body to be organized. "Why?!" I was asking this question a hundred times to my students. I got these answers:
1) The school administration has banned the formation of student council when a group of BS Accountancy students picketted infront of the Marikina City Hall.
2) They do not want to incorporate the students in its over-all academic and administrative development goals.
3) They are overly afraid to allow student council for it will make it vulnerable to student scrutiny.
4) They think that students are not capable of handling such organization - that is, lack of sense of leadership, responsibility...intellectual ability (that's the worst of all that I have heard).
I was very disappointed to hear such words. F.Y.I., I was deeply involved in campus politics during my college years. In fact, I still visit my political party in University of Santo Tomas every now and then. That makes me feel boiled of the ironic situations - of highly political and highly apolitical environment.
Whenever we brought up the issue of deprivation of student council formation, I just quote them the three very important provisions:
1) "The right of the people, including those employed in the public and private sectors, to form unions, associations, or societies for purposes not contrary to law shall not be abridged."
Article III, Section 8, 1987 Philippine Constitution
2) "Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association."
Article 20 (1), UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
3) "The fundamental law of the land requires the state through its instrumentalities, in paricular the educational agencies, to promote the physical, intellectual and social well-being of the youth, the students. They are encouraged to go to schools of all levels to utilize their God-given talents for self-development and, collectively, for nation-building. That are encouraged further to join all kinds of organizations that foster camaraderie and instill brotherhood."
CHED Order No. 4 S. 1995, Commission on Higher Education
I advised them to stand up for their rights. "But how?" say students. Your STUDENT COUNCIL is just worth a few hundred pesos - just the cost of a jeepney ride, two train rides and a gulaman thirst quencher after a walk from Pedro Gil Station to the Supreme Court. Why Supreme Court?! I told them to file a Petition for Writ of Mandamus. (What the hell is it?!)
Article 20 (1), UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
3) "The fundamental law of the land requires the state through its instrumentalities, in paricular the educational agencies, to promote the physical, intellectual and social well-being of the youth, the students. They are encouraged to go to schools of all levels to utilize their God-given talents for self-development and, collectively, for nation-building. That are encouraged further to join all kinds of organizations that foster camaraderie and instill brotherhood."
CHED Order No. 4 S. 1995, Commission on Higher Education
I advised them to stand up for their rights. "But how?" say students. Your STUDENT COUNCIL is just worth a few hundred pesos - just the cost of a jeepney ride, two train rides and a gulaman thirst quencher after a walk from Pedro Gil Station to the Supreme Court. Why Supreme Court?! I told them to file a Petition for Writ of Mandamus. (What the hell is it?!)
[Latin, We comand.] A writ or order that is issued from a court of superior jurisdiction that commands an inferior tribunal, corporation, municipal corporation or individual to perform, or refrain from performing, a particular act, the performance or omission of which is required by law as an obligation.
This petition costs two hundred pesos only! Great idea, isn't it? Lols.
By the way, Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Marikina has, also, NO STUDENT PUBLICATION.
See you soon! I am very late for my SENAKULO Technical Dress Rehearsal in Our Lady of the Abandoned Parish.
Bye Oh Blog!
