The Growling Tiger
 “You are sons and daughters of LESSER GODS. Your parents were just laundrywomen and drivers and they don’t even pay taxes.” I was a senior in high school when I heard those words from the person I least expected to tell me those. Until now, I can still remember how our teacher made my senior life miserable. Until now, I still remember how she used to belittle not only our capacities but also our innocent, humble parents. During the first day of classes when we first met her, we didn’t mind her at first. Since we were very busy giggling, mumbling and talking about everyone’s vacation. But when she finally cleared her throat and uttered her first words, we were like tigers tamed by their master. Then she started the school year obviously not wanting our section,, she even compared us to her former students at St. Paul’s College. After minutes of getting mad, she finally remembered to introduced herself. The first thing she mentioned about her was that she was graduate of UST. At first, I have the impression that she must be intelligent because she came from a big time university and I thought that there must also be something good within her, it’s just that we have to behave to please her. But she never changed, the way she acted on our first meeting was the way she acted the entire school year. The way she was made me irritated to her. Most of the time, I would escape from her class but I would also come back after a while. It was easier for me to escape since I was seated near the door. I knew that she always notice me doing that but she didn’t bother to call my attention. She was very annoyed and irritated in our section, and ironically, that made us happy. I knew what she wanted, she wanted respect. That’s why when she was annoyed, she would mention that she was a Thomasian as if we have to respect her because of that. There were times when she would brag about her signature bags like Coach, Gucci, channel and her latest Nokia phone. My God, the hell I care, those things don’t even have a connection with the subject she taught. She was atrocious, more atrocious than I could imagine her. There was a time that she got upset because of noise. She got mad, mad as a growling tiger. She asked us if we know how much the tuition in UST costs, she added that we couldn’t afford the tuition there nor even one of her signature bags. On second thought, I realized, she was saying all of those things because she seeks respect. We didn’t like what she said. So one of my classmates mustered her confidence and raised her hand. The tiger called her to stand. She started, “Excuse me ma’am” (with all the respect she wanted). “I just want to say that all we buy now from the store has value added tax. Another classmate added, “Please don’t insult us because my father is also a driver.” That statement made her got raged in anger again but instead of responding to my classmates, she warned us not to talk about that incident outside the classroom. We never did. Days later, the English Faculty room was abuzz with talk about what happened in our section. My classmates were summoned to go to the principal’s office, and she was put in the probation list. Luckily, she graduated. Eversince that incident happened, it encouraged me to take up Education and English as my major in college. And I promised one thing to myself, after I graduated, I will go back to her and I will proudly say that I am a graduate of Bulacan State University. Possibly Related Posts:
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ang galing ng College of Education ng BulSU.. galingan niyo pa… you are producing caliber teachers there. i was once a student of BulSU. but I transferred na to DLSU. Go Go lang.
all i can say is that sana maresolba na ng BulSU yung mga issue na bumabalot sa bawat kolehiyo. Lumipat ako ng school kasi dun sa college namin, (na di ko sasabihin, pero di ako College of Education.) nadidismaya lang ako kasi minsan wala naman kaming natututunan and malayo sa real subject requirement yung tinuturo..and i admit I was a former student of BSU and I transferred to De La Salle University-Manila because of many reasons.one of those is above.
i was also once a Staff Writer for a Student Publication and it is indeed true na minsan nauuwi sa tuluyang pagkasara ng publication yung kawalan ng suporta ng mga estudyante.Ang mas masakit, minsan kapwa estudyante na ninyo ang hindi sumusuporta.
I admit kaya ng parents ko na paaralin ako sa Manila. pero sana yung quality education na naeexperience ko ngayon mareform na din sa BulSU. ang mga issue sa BSU ay hindi tungkol sa PERA. minsan kasi lahat na lang ng issue ay umiikot sa pera. mula sa Field Trip hanggang sa mga project yun na lang. Pero ang totoong nakataya dito is yung EDUCATION na dapat baunin ng estudyante hanggang sa gumraduate siya.
Sa totoo lang, Education and Engineering ang mga nangungunang magaling sa BSU..nakakaplace sila ng mataas sa board exams. pero how about yung ibang colleges?? sana mapagtuunan din sila ng pansin.
***about yung sa Teacher na nagsabi at nagyayabang na Tomasino siya or galing UST.. huwag niyo siyang papansinin kasi ipinagmamalaki lang niya na private and catholic school ang pinanggalingan niya… kaya din iyan ng mga BulSUan… huwag kayo papaapi..
i am hoping for the best for Bulacan State University and kahit nasa DLSU-Manila na ako, my 1-year stay at BSU helped me to transfer.
Salamat po.