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Friday, March 30, 2012

Saint Theresa's College Ordered By Court To Allow Banned Students To Attend Graduation Rites (PH)

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Saint Theresa's College was ordered by the court to allow two 16-year-old students to march for graduation, after they were banned from attending the ceremonies for posting on Facebook photos of themselves in bikini.




According to Inquirer.net, judge Wilfredo Navarro of the Cebu City Regional Trial Court Branch 19 issued a Temporary Restraining Order on the sanction imposed by the school to the graduating students.

Navarro stated that STC must “treat the minors with kindness and civility befitting true graduates of a respectable institution sans any discrimination for the entire duration of the commencement exercises.”

Earlier reports said the school penalized the students involved in the so-called “STC Facebook bikini photo scandal” for violating the school handbook that requires students good moral conduct in and outside the campus.

The minors claimed they were deprived by the school due process because they were not given the opportunity to explain their side. They were reportedly scolded by the school principal during a meeting on March 1.

Court records show that in a March 27 meeting, Sister Celeste Ma. Purisima Pe, the principal, and four other respondents, did not deny the allegation of the students that they were called “sluts,” “addicts,” “drunkards,” and “cheap.”

Judge Navarro noted that as minors, the two students have the right to protection not just from physical abuse, but from verbal abuse as well.

“And to deprive them further of their right to participate in the commencement exercises or graduation rites certainly would not help any for their recovery from such a psychologically and emotionally devastating experience,” the ruling said, according to the report.

image credit & source: coolbuster.net

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