Centralians protest, win round 1  

New mgt takes over

Fight for the future, fight for change. Officers of the Central Negros College Supreme Student Government lead students during a rally inside the campus on second day of school. The students called for the ouster of Mr. Mario and Socorro Ledesma who are presently the administrators of the family-owned college.              

A new administration has taken over the management of Central Negros College and the protesting College Supreme Student Government (CSSG) proclaimed victory.

Brewing storm

CSSG officers took the fight to the street on June 5, a day after all public schools in the country started implementing the Kindergarten plus 12 years of Basic Education Program. Roughly 20 college CNC students armed themselves with placards as they called for a change of school management.

Plebeeboy Nalzaro, CSSG Vice-president, said that they held the protest because they wanted to voice sentiments against Mr. Mario Ledesma and his wife Socorro. The two had ran the school for about 19 years. "Eleven million ang kita sa school kada tuig pero walay improvements," Nalzaro stated as fellow student-protesters continued shouting for change in front of the school stage.

K to 12 starts smooth

Kindergarten plus 12 years of Basic Education (K to 12) was implemented smoothly starting June 4, school heads reported.

"As far as Grade 1 is concerned, implementation is okay but the burden is on the teachers," Cynthia Demavivas, Asst. Schools Division Superintendent and OIC of the Department of Education gave her assessment. Teachers in Grade 1 are now faced with the challenge of implementing K to 12 together with the Mother Tongue-Based Multi-Lingual Education (MTB-MLE).

MTB-MLE does not come with textbooks so teachers are forced to make big books, charts, cards and other visual learning aids. In Tandang Sora Elementary School, Grade 1 teacher Giannefel Natividad B. Bellego readily conducted her class in her native Cebuano. Bellego gave her pupils instructions using the mother tongue and the class got going on day one through the Cebuano children's song "Kumusta ka?" Pupils responded both with glee and surprise that they had to sing not English but Cebuano songs.

For the whole division, only Don Juan Elementary School in Barangay Punao does not have enough classrooms for its pupils. Several rooms in the said school had been declared condemnable. 

Demavivas also reported that DepEd Order No. 41, series of 2012 is now being promulgated nationwide. The order mandates that for Grades 1 to 3, the maximum number of pupils per class should only be 40. In high school, there should only be 40 to 60 students in a class.

Soldier's Pen

By BGen. Alexander Cabales (Ret.)

Corona case: 

Model for good governance

Kumander Dante "cried like a baby".  This was the revelation of Mario Miclat in his book "The Secrets of the 18 Mansions".  Kumander Dante, Bernabe Buscayno in real life, was the erstwhile leader of the New People's Army (NPA) before he was given amnesty by the Cory Aquino Administration sometime in 1986.  This revolutionary peasant was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) together with author Miclat under the leadership of Jose Maria (Joma) Sison who now lives in the Netherlands.

No Baby Talk

Georgene Rhena P. Quilaton-Tambiga

Football for breakfast

"Football is life."

I had never met people whose professed devotion and dedication to a sport spill out of the playing field until June 4. It was when I met the Scottish football coach Leigh Manson, Mexican coaches Jorge Kuriyama and Diego Angel Sandoval Vera.

Future. Leigh Manson, Total Football Inc. President talks to kids on San Carlos streets as he distributes Nike stickers.                                                                                                      Photo Source: Leigh Manson  

Bantay Banat

Ni Rics Cañisarez

SK President gipa-resign

Ang balita nga nakadangat diri kanako, mao kining bahin sa pag palagpot sa SK Fe

deration President Lady Lehi P. Lambayong nga maoy ex-officio member sa Sangguniang Panlungsod sa syudad. Para masiguro kon unsa ka tinuod ning maong balita, akong giadtuan ang panimalay ug ako gayung nahinabi si Lambayong ug gipangutana kon unsa ka tinuod nga palagputon sya sa pagka SK Federation President ug sa unsang rason.

Pikpik sa Abaga

Ni Henry Sandoval

Hapit na!

Pila na lang ka bulan ang paabuton ug mulagda na sa COMELEC  ang mga musaad nga moserbisyo 24 oras kuno sa mga katawhan. Ang San Carlos usa sa mga talagsa-on nga lugar. Ang mga kandidato nga makasulod sa tiket sa administrasyun siguro ang kadaugan.

Ug kabalo ba mo nga ug mag P 30,000 ang bulan sa usa ka konsehal aduna siyay

P 360,000 sa usa ka tuig? Ug sa siyam ka tuig nga moserbisyo siya sa siyudad aduna na siyay makuha nga P 3.24M isip sweldo sa pagka konsehal. Wala pay labot sa mga bonuses nga iyahang makuha.

Angayan gayud unta nga mopili ang tawo apan walay choice kay nagkahiusang kusog sa mga adunahang yutaan ang atong giatubang ug politika na ang istoryahan. Ingon ani kadako ang sweldo nga ilahang makuha nga angayan usab nga ilahang balusan sa usa ka mauswagong San Carlos sa panahon na nga sila mamungko sa katungdanan. Unta tan-awon usab ang ubang mga professional nga naa ra sa daplin sa karsada nagpapatad na lang ug STL ug dili Jai-Alai para lang gayud maka kwarta nga ika suportar sa pamilya.

Komentaryo

Ni Dodong Mondragon

Consequences

Sa kasagaran sa atong kinabuhi karon maoy resulta sa mga panghitabo sa miaging mga panahon. Kung atong suhiron pag-ayo ang atong mga lihok kaniadto, duna gayuy kalabutan sa atong sitwasyon karon. Mao kini ang makapainteres kanako kay sama sa sugilanon sa akong higala kabahin sa iyang napangasawa.

Sa panahon sa iyang pagkasoltero, wala gayud syay hilig nga motambong sa mga party. Usa ka gabie niana, gisultian siya sa iyang amahan nga iyang ubanan ang iyang igsuong babaye sa birthday party sa iyang amiga. Midumili unta siya sa pagkuyog, gani iyang gitubag nga ang uban niyang mga manghod na lang maoy pakuyogon apan miinsester ang iyang amahan nga syay pabantayon sa iyang igsuon. Busa napugos siya sa pagkuyog.