
We received this
e-mail a student who wishes to remain anonymous.
From: [name withheld]
Reply-To:
To: info@ismstakeholders.com
Date: 06 Sep 2006, 01:53:57 PM
Subject: Name to be witheld, please
To the ISM Community,
I'm very concerned about
everything going on in this school since Monday. Prior to this week I
believed the state of our school community to be fairly stable because
I was not yet informed of the current events going on. However, most of
us students began to take interest in our school's political system since
this Monday when Mr. Toze was "forcibly thrown out of the school under
guards similar to a criminal" (Source: The Philippine Star). Our teachers
said he was fired, and Monday was also the only time when I also heard
about the resignation of two Board members that happened a few days ago.
Along with this news came several other rumours regarding his children
being pulled out of school, his car being taken from him and the like,
as well as whispers about teachers resigning from the school. I have not
heard any confirmation regarding these rumours, but the students' ignorance
of the facts concerning our school's situation mean a lack of communication,
but as a very concerned student, I am praying to know the truth.
I have also been hearing
various speculations regarding the Board of Trustees at ISM and have read
e-mail after e-mail and any article that I could find related to the current
events going on at our school. I am constantly visiting ISMstakeholders.com
for any updates and feel torn. I happen to be a close friend of the son
of one of the current members of the Board and I am being fed information
which I am not sure about. He mentions things that I believe are true
and call them false and vise versa. Of course, gossip will not do anything
for the better of our school, so why not just give us the whole truth?
As of now, my opinions
will remain neutral until the Board of Trustees finally speaks. I am extremely
annoyed at people who post on their own personal blog sites saying how
the students aren't at all going to be affected by this situation because
as far as this whole situation is concerned, we are definitely involved.
How some students and parents remain apathetic about the conflict going
on in school is almost disgusting. The teachers went "on strike" or something
like that today. Most parents are signing a petition for something even
I'm not so sure of. As far as I heard, it was to make our current Board
step down from their respective positions. Everything is so close to chaos,
so why not care? We are studying in one of the most prestigious schools
in the Philippines. Why just sit there and watch the school's foundation
simply collapse? ISM is the only school I have learned to love in this
way and all this foolishness and lack of communication is only destructive
to all the positive values I've embraced in the years I have studied in
this school.
By the hour we are fed
with new information, whether fact or gossip. We, the students, have the
right to be informed of the truth.
ISM Student, Class of
2011.
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