The Importance of Modifying an Audience

Having phobia on the on going conflict between the Arm Forces of the Philippines and the Bangsamoro Army, the School principal disseminate some precautionary measures and defensive technique on how to skip the variance. After the Flag Ceremony, she brought the students into attention. The students were silence and attentive in waiting for her declaration.

Principal: The on going clashes with the Arm Forces of the Philippines and the Bangsamoro is thing about we must consider. I want you to stay in the campus. Did you see that bill board under the Marang tree?

Students: Yes Ma’am…!

Principal: What is that?

Students: Ma’am, “NO LOITERING”!

Principal: Very Good! That means, you must be inside the school campus! Are you aware of the recent inconsistency?

Students: Yes Ma’am!

Principal: Can you tell me? Any body, five points for a good answer!

Student: Ma’am, the difference between the Arm Forces of the Philippines and the Bagsamoro Army!

Principal: and then…?

Students: (in chorus) War!

Principal: Alright, since you are too young to understand, let me directs you to some security measures. Consider this flag to be your base. You sit under the shade of our National Flag, the Flag of the Philippines. If you do, INSHA= ALLAH, you will stay unharmed. Both Combatants will recognize you as Law Abiding citizen. Do not forget, “sit under the shade of the Philippine Flag. You can now report to your respective Classroom.

The principal enters to her office and prepare for her instructional materials. As she go through with her first group of students in that day, she found few who are not around. She started to check the attendance when one student raised her hand and say, “Ma’am, others are still outside!” She instructed the same to call her classmates in order for them to begin.

After a while, the student came rushing. She reported on the others refusal to enter in their classroom. The later are afraid to get in, for they are scared of soldiers. With out verifying further, the principal rushed and ordered to search every classroom to check on the presence of what the students were alarmed of soldiers. They checked every corners of the room and found nothing to be alarmed in.

The principal returned to the Flagpole and face the students calmly. With a tone of low voice, she asked the remaining students what made them stay under the sun, guarding the flying flag. One very shy student answered that, again they were afraid of soldiers. But… who told you there are? The principal ask slowly. I will be giving bonus for the first student who will provide me the best information about your fear, said the principal. The students answered almost in chorus and said…You say it just now! We must sit under the shade of the flag to remain unharmed! The poor principal scratched her head, twisting her neck for she was punished by herself. The announcement was made clear but interpreting about sitting under the shade of the Philippine Flag was too meaningful that mere High School students cannot understands for it requires number of books to define it fully.

The principal was slightly wrong when she uses meaningful lines to an audience that ranges from 12-15. She mistook the audience to be a group of Lawyers or Journalists. Perhaps the said school official was in a hurry to bring the school away from the present conflicts. That was why she was not able to evaluate her audience. The students concerned must be thankful to their school principal.

This concerned me a lot. When I am giving lectures and advise to my students, I always see to it that the words I spelled will not spoil their younger mind. I rather used words of comparisons than contrasts. Using contrast might not be visible to them. We may rotten their sense of silence and keep the opposite.

The sensitivity of the variance today requires careful approach when imparting to the young generations. They are not supposed to misunderstand the conflicts for we might be putting them at risked. They are our hope, because when everything subsided, we need their support in any form. Let us protect the young, as we mentors see the magnitude of the students to prop up in the near future. They may be are significance to hold up our objectives as Bangsamoro.

Extending Management Stress

The Division Office has scheduled the Incoming Math Challenge for all Year Level; Freshmen, Sophomore, Junior and Seniors. The said Math Challenge is scheduled last October 18. Prior to the said date the school management, students and teachers anticipate the said challenge and do the school screening for the said competition. In two weeks, the students selected for the affair were set and were exempted from their regular classes. This was done to give ways to their simple reviews, orientations and pointers.

The school participants were set and were ready to take any challenge. They may not be the best but at least they came prepared and have tried their best for it. A sad news was sent late to all Secondary Schools. . .It was miscommunication, because the said schedule was given late. The said competition was supposed to to be held in Iligan City. The names of participants must have selected and done well before the given date

It was really a bad news for us who tried to prepare. Nobody was sent to the said challenge for the the Division Office has not met with the requirements. They were supposed to select through school Competitions before securing the names of those students who qualify. To make it short, no one qualify for no selections was done.

We hope, the Division office must have the best knowledge of knowing the sequence and the procedure the next time they will require every school for participants. I dislikes the idea of being sorry for we cannot afford to say sorry to our students who their best to try even a single questions of the said competitions.

The practice of disseminating wrong information will give management stress to any school who wish to participate in this affair.

Science Quest

The the Division of Lanao del Sur I-B, announces its Science Quest the Day before the competition. This said quest will be conducted in the Division office for both the Elementary and High School level, a very congested place for almost a hundred participants.

For this school to comply with this requirements, we sent 8 students, divided equally to all year level according to their academic performance.Although we hate the way they handled wit this serious affair but we have to comply. We attended on the said competition without preparations. It seems, we were testing on the performance of these students and punishing them at once.

The competition started with the elimination round that automatically eliminated our two students, leaving us only two representatives. The Division office allowed only four representative, meaning one student for each year level. After the average level, we have only one representative left. Sohaila Logi fight to the very end. We really do not make it.

The way the Division office organize the situation, it discouraged school principals and teachers. The day before the competition, the announce the said affair, giving no time to prepare. I should have decline but it could be in superiority in nature, so I did not try. I hope, this said approach will not happen again. We were expecting this to be announce in month or even months before the competition. We can generalized that the affair was haphazardly done. I dislike it.