Predictably, netizens deplored her derogatory language, which they equated with child abuse, and called on the Department of Education to investigate the incident and impose some disciplinary measure on the teacher concerned.
Let’s pack a room meant for 20 students with twice that number or even more, with the heat from a tin roof bearing down on everyone . The teacher recites her lesson in a funereal monotone, expecting her students to regurgitate what she has just said: “Class, how do you pronounce a-DO-le-scent?” Now, when Teacher X says “You have no future,” I take it to mean that Ma’am has read the Edcom II report on the sad state of Philippine education, which puts our young learners practically at the cellar of global achievement.
God must have been a prolific babymaker, because this prosperous preacher is but one of many around the world proclaiming themselves to be Sons of God. Nearly all have landed in some kind of trouble with the law, usually in matters of sex and money, paltry and mundane emoluments that Sons of God seem to feel especially entitled to, in partial recompense for the heavy burdens of divinity.
I got a surprise message from my niece Riva Galvez-Tan who wrote a guide or manual on “Your Inevitable Flight,” a pre-departure manual. If there’s anyone in the world who has circled the globe extensively, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken wins hands down.