A high school graduate, a salutatorian at that, was forced to seek redress of
grievance before the Court of Appeals (CA) because her former school, the Santo
Niño Parochial School, would not issue her a certificate of good moral
character.
As if stopping Krisel Mallari mid-speech
during graduation rites was not uncivilized enough, the school had also
withheld Mallari’s certificate that would allow her to enroll at the University
of Santo Tomas.
Mallari’s fault in the eyes of this
dictatorial school was, in fact, her practice of her constitutionally
guaranteed right to free speech. All she did was to lament the lack of
transparency in the computation of grades.
What morals were violated by Mallari with
that?
If the priests of Sto. Niño would not open
their minds to how petty their withholding the certificate is, the Dominicans
of the Royal and Pontifical UST must rise above this narrow-mindedness by
admitting Mallari sans the certificate.
In fact, the Department Education (CHED) and
the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) must altogether stop the practice of
requiring students to submit such a certificate from their previous schools.
As shown by the administrators of Sto. Niño
Parochial School, many supposed educators are so uptight and imperious that
they cannot be allowed to judge the character of their students. –End-
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