Netizen’s Open Letter Castigates St Scholastica’s For Using Students In Anti-Duterte Rally

It’s sad when a school, which should be neutral grounds in molding young minds, has its own political leanings. Even sadder, the students inevitably get crushed in the middle when said school decides to exercise such leanings, and the students’ minds, young and impressionable as they are, are always in danger of being wrongly influenced or even, to use a more sinister term, brainwashed.

Such was the case of a disgruntled parent who recently took to Facebook in the aftermath of a rally held against PRRD.

Pulong Duterte, Vice Mayor to Davao City and son to President Rodrigo Duterte, posted an open letter yesterday addressed to Sr. Mary Frances Dizon OSB, president of St. Scholastica College Malate from Mr. Rylan Alingarog – father to one of the schoo’s students – who expressed his anger and disappointment at how his daughter and other students were used at a rally aimed against President Duterte and spearheaded by one of the latter’s loudest critics – Sen. Risa Hontiveros.

Mr Alingarog lambasted the school’s management in his open letter, asking why his child needed to be included in the said rally.

Worried that the students will be open and prone to becoming victims of cyber-harassment after being exposed on social media while openly criticizing the President, Mr. Alingarog tells St Scholastica to forbid Hontiveros from inviting the school’s students in future rallies aimed against the current administration.

“I am an educated individual, I also graduated from a catholic school, but my school protected us from politics, they only taught us the values of life, they only gave us the tools, the knowledge, that in the future we will know how to decide on things.
Do not taint the minds of our child with politics. Your act was not spontaneous, it was planned and organized. You only circulated a letter to allow our child with a certain "YOUTH SONA 2017" thinking that it is just an ordinary school activity. You maliciously misinformed us. PUT----- I--- KUNG ANG NILAGAY NINYO EH MAG RARALLY ANG MGA BATA MAY MEDIA HO AT MA-0TV MGA ANAK NINYO EH P----- I--- PIPIRMA BA MGA MAGULANG DOON?”

The anger was palpable in the father’s open letter.

In addition, Pulong Duterte also questioned the motives of St. Scholastica’s school management, remarking, “Education ba yan for children? Anong subject?!!!”

Here’s the link to Mr. Alingarog’s open letter, as posted in Vice Mayor Pulong’s Facebook Page:

mga style niyong bulok!! Pati bata dinamay niyo.. eto na may napaMURA na.

OPEN LETTER TO ST SCHOLASTICA'S MANAGEMENT
July 18,2017
Sr.Mary Frances Dizon OSB
PRESIDENT

St. Scholastica College
2560 Leon Guinto St.
Malate,Manila

SUBJECT : RALLY AGAINST PRRD HELD TODAY

PUTANG INA NAMAN......

Ano nanaman yang katarantaduhan ninyo ? Bakit mga bata ang ginagamit ninyo sa pag rarally? Bakit hindi kayong lahat ng teacher,admin staff,madre ang magpunta sa mendiola at mag rally.

Bakit mga anak namin ang ginagamit ninyo. PUTANG INA NINYO WALA PANG 18 years old mga anak namin 15 and 14 anong alam nila sa politika? Tapos may media agad? Hindi ba well planned and organized?
Hindi ba ninyo naisip na baka ma bash sa social media ang mga bata o yung political interest lang ninyo ang inisip ninyo?

Pakisabi kay Sen.Hontiveros na siya ang mag rally mag isa,wag na niya isama mga anak namin.

Tayo ngayon ang mag debate,hindi yung mag iimbita kayo ng sino sinong mga resource person
para magsalita sa stage at bilugin ang ulo ng mga anak namin.

Bakit hindi ninyo imbitahin lahat ng mga magulang ng estudyante ninyo ngayon,sulatan ninyo lahat
para malaman ninyo kung ano ang sentyimento naming mga matatanda.

Extra Judicial Killing - Do you have any proof that PRRD instigated the killings of "so called victims" ?
If yes then go ahead and file a case against the administration.

If none then let's go back to the moral law, hindi ba masama ang magbintang sa kapwa?

Did you know what are implications with this kind of exposure to our children? If not then I suggest you organize another rally with all your relatives for you to know. I also suggest that you march all the way from St.Scholastica to Malacanang palace to RELEASE your sentiments and POLITICAL POSITION about the current administration for all I care. PERO WAG NINYO ISAMA MGA ANAK NAMIN PUTANG INA NINYO!!!!!!!!!
Bakit hindi ninyo kami ininform na MAG RARALLY PALA MGA ANAK NAMIN AT PAGKATAPOS PALA NAMIN MANGGALING SA TRABAHO AY MAPAPANOOD NA NAMIN SA TV. Sino ba namang magulang ang hindi matutuwa.

Oh siempre wala akong maririnig na reply sa inyo at holy holy nanaman kayo. Or magrereply nanaman kayo with the nicest and holiest words available in the dictionary.
Kung alam ko lang na ganyan kayo hindi namin inenroll mga anak namin sa inyo.

I am an educated individual, I also graduated from a catholic school, but my school protected us from politics, they only taught us the values of life,they only gave us the tools, the knowledge, that in the future we will know how to decide on things.

Do not taint the minds of our child with politics. Your act was not spontaneous, it was planned and organized. You only circulated a letter to allow our child with a certain "YOUTH SONA 2017" thinking that it is just an ordinary school activity. You maliciously misinformed us. PUTANG INA KUNG ANG NILAGAY NINYO EH MAG RARALLY ANG MGA BATA MAY MEDIA HO AT MA-0TV MGA ANAK NINYO EH PUTANG INA PIPIRMA BA MGA MAGULANG DOON?

I will not ask for a public apology I know it will not come. But I challenge you to do the rally by yourselves at 100% attendance from your admin to all the teachers and staff.

Mr.Rylan Alingarog
A CONCERNED PARENT

ETO NUMBER KO BAKA SABIHIN NINYO BAHAG BUNTOT KO
09478998715

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